War, Famine and Our Food SupplyS. Low, Marston, limited, 1897 - Всего страниц: 215 |
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Стр. vi
... towns ? The Bishop of Stepney said recently that , in that district alone , there were one hundred thousand skulking loafers who constituted a danger to London and a peril to the empire . If our food supply from abroad is ever so ...
... towns ? The Bishop of Stepney said recently that , in that district alone , there were one hundred thousand skulking loafers who constituted a danger to London and a peril to the empire . If our food supply from abroad is ever so ...
Стр. viii
... their defenceless towns pay money instead of bombarding them or threatening to do so ; it could only shut up the Russian fleet in its own fortified harbours . It could inflict no such damage on either country as viii INTRODUCTORY .
... their defenceless towns pay money instead of bombarding them or threatening to do so ; it could only shut up the Russian fleet in its own fortified harbours . It could inflict no such damage on either country as viii INTRODUCTORY .
Стр. xvi
... town dwellers knew as I do that no bread is so sweet , so sustaining , and lasts good so long as that made from good wheat grown in these islands . But it is hopeless to attempt to convert generations which have grown up on foreign ...
... town dwellers knew as I do that no bread is so sweet , so sustaining , and lasts good so long as that made from good wheat grown in these islands . But it is hopeless to attempt to convert generations which have grown up on foreign ...
Стр. xx
... towns , of bread we have next to no reserve at all . Admitting for a moment that the Standard is correct in saying that with what we grow at home ( and we grow less every year ) , with what foreign wheat we have in store , or in ships ...
... towns , of bread we have next to no reserve at all . Admitting for a moment that the Standard is correct in saying that with what we grow at home ( and we grow less every year ) , with what foreign wheat we have in store , or in ships ...
Стр. xxiii
... should be built by each town or dis- trict according to its requirements , and paid for by a loan extending over some years . The cost of working the granaries would be more than covered by the 3s . per quarter INTRODUCTORY . xxiii.
... should be built by each town or dis- trict according to its requirements , and paid for by a loan extending over some years . The cost of working the granaries would be more than covered by the 3s . per quarter INTRODUCTORY . xxiii.
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A. T. Mahan abroad America and Russia amount blockade bread Britain British Captain Mahan Colonies corn stores corn trade corn-merchant cost criticism crop cruisers danger defence Empire England enormous exchange famine in India farmers fighting five million fleet food supply foreign wheat France Germany give Government grain granaries grow harvest hundred hundred quarters impossible interest keep less loaf London Lord Wolseley Malta million pounds millions sterling nation National Review navy never Nineteenth Century peace Plevna ports possible present proposal protect quantity quarters of wheat question R. B. Marston railway reply reserve of corn reserve of food reserve of wheat Russia Russia and America scheme sea power seed silos South Australia Standard starve suggestion supply of wheat tanks thirty millions thousand Trafalgar Square tunnel twelve months twenty-five million quarters United United Kingdom VALLETTA W. T. STEAD wheat-growing worth Yerburgh