PROSPERITY AGAIN
British Industries Fair Banquet London, February 22. “Prosperity is here again,’’ was the keynote of speeches at a Government Mansion House banquet to buyers visiting the British Industries Fair. Representatives of 70 countries attended. Lord Derby, using notes prepared for Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who was absent, declared that the 'United Kingdom’s industrial production in 1937 exceeded that in 1929 by 25 per cent. Apart from rearmament, which had caused only a fraction of the activity, many firms had sufficient work to keep them busy at full capacity for months There was no doubt that the United Kingdom was in a very strong position to meet any fluctuations in world conditions.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 11
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