Word: british
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London the British Foreign Office promptly placed on view the cablegram from Sir Howard Kennard to Viscount Halifax on which the latter based his assurance to Germany. Wired British Ambassador Sir Howard: "Colonel Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, most grateful for the proposed reply to Herr Hitler, authorizes His Majesty's Government to inform German Government that Poland is ready to enter at once into direct discussion with Germany...
Week before he reopened his uncut Hamlet on Broadway, British Actor Maurice Evans was asked: "Who is the best Hamlet you've ever seen?" Prompt Evans retort: "I haven't got any mirrors...
Over 80% of the U. S.'s annual tin imports (more than 75,000 tons in a "normal" year, 45% of the world's yearly production) comes from Asia, 18% from Europe, practically all of it is smelted in the British and Dutch empires. War at sea might cut it off. Already shipments from Singapore have been partly rerouted. The U. S. supply of tin is limited to tin-plate scrap reclaimed from U. S. junk piles, but that yields only about 30% of U. S. needs...
During World War I (which sent the price of tin to $1.10 per lb.), U. S. war planners became tin-conscious. A U. S. tin smelter was built to process East Indian ore imported direct into the U. S. but British interests, practically monopolizing world tin mining and smelting, slapped export taxes on ore shipments to the U. S., stifled the infant U. S. tin-smelting industry...
Phelps Dodge's Louis Gates is pitting new U. S. smelting practice against the rutted methods of the British trust. Freight, insurance and greater demand have so far pushed the New York tin price approximately 29% above London. In spite of the ore handicap, Phelps Dodge can more than break even with tin at about 46?, which is more than 10? higher than the British break-even point. This should keep Phelps Dodge in the tin business even come peace. American Metal has the same economic problem. Meantime in Argentina, National Lead Co., St. Joseph Lead Co., and Patino...