South Yorkshire Times and Express – Saturday 3 January 1953

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TWO breezy Westerners who visited Wall Street in search of funds for mine developments were introduced to a shrewd financier.

“Suspicious old chap, isn’t he?” remarked one, when they had left him.

“I didn’t notice. How was that?”

“Didn’t you see how he counted his fingers after I had shaken hands with him ?