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...financial adviser, is making his second effort to reform Persia's national economy (he had the same job 21 years ago). Oil is Persia's principal resource, but Persians see little of it. Persia's oilfields are principally controlled by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. The people depend on the land, and most of the under-cultivated, ill-used land belongs to the same absentee moguls who control the national finances...
...Speaker, Edward Algernon Fitzroy did not have the political power of U.S. Speakers, but his prestige was greater. Like his U.S. counterparts, he was chosen by the majority party, but his tenure did not, as in the U.S. depend upon that party's staying in power. When he donned the wig he resigned from his party, could look forward to a lifetime job or (if he got too feeble) to a peerage when he retired. Like all good British Speakers-and there have been few bad ones in recent times-Captain Fitzroy had to become a political agnostic, impartially...
...help fat patients eat less, Dr. Cutting has tried many drugs supposed to cut appetite. None of these has worked satisfactorily. He has to depend on the patients' will power, a dubious aid-"all obese persons are poor candidates for reduction, as indicated by the fact that they have allowed themselves to become...
...more escort vessels, even if production of merchantmen has to be decreased. Said the Prime Minister: "The more sinkings are reduced, the more vehement our Anglo-American war efforts can be. ... The greater the weight we can take off Russia and how quickly the war will end all depend upon the margin of new building and forging ahead over losses which are, although improving, still lamentable and . . . grievous...
...this is to cut exports. But in peacetime this normally implies drastically cutting profit margins, since for many a firm exports mean that extra margin of volume on which profits very largely depend. The alternative is for the U.S. willingly to accept imports. This means eliminating tariffs and trade barriers which special groups defend...