The changes to the Bank of HEmgland have provoked. some considerable "comment. Removal of hoardings reveated new doors which, both in colour and. design, are. in striking contrast. to. the' sombre ferry-black of the remainder of the
thas a burnished brest. affect.
Pulding, "The central doable door covered with large solid studs, and midway "up. are two lions" Rend Near the top. are' two. flaming torches, All the doors are control-Ned by thick brass wheels. Of six figures sculptured in stone on the facade of the portico two female [figures are bearers of wealth, hotd-ing cornucopias, and four' male figures represent castodianship. Their rather modern lines provoke comparison with the work of Epstein, London a City of Carrot Eaters The consumption of carrots in London has suddenly jumped from 180,000. Ibs. @ day to more than 560,000 ths. and has caused a tempora ary famine. Crowds of greengrocers fare besieging Covent Garden and Spitalfields Markets, but nowhere is ithe supply of carrots equal to the demand." Urgent telegrams Inve been. sent to growers. This. sudden popularity of the carrot is believed be due partly to the recent statement. by the Committee of Medical Research that the yellow matter. ithe vegetable is both a. preventive lof and a cure for many infectious complaints, including influenza and All the leading importers of foreign petroleum have now conformed with the informal request of the Government to assist in the imitation of oil imports, the latest to jain in being the Stantiard Oil Company of Indiana, which has notified the U.S, Treasury that it will join the scheme within 90 days,
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