POST WORLD WAR INFLATION DOUBLES PRICE FOR WIVES IN SUDAN
London, U.K. (JFK+50) On February 18, 1922, the Associated Press reports that Lord De War, at a meeting of the Leysian Mission* here in London, says that "profiteering had spread everywhere since the war."
Even in Sudan where before the world war a wife could be purchased for a mere four spearheads, now the price "has doubled...one has to pay eight."
In the cattle country, the AP states, the price was four cows, but now it is seven.
*Leysian mission was founded by the Old Boys of The Leys School at a general meeting in the Mission House, Bishopgate Street, in 1885. They were concerned about social & housing conditions in London's East End.
SOURCES
"Leysian Mission," London Remembers, www.londonremembers.com/
"Profiteering in Wives Hard Blow for Sudan, Price Now Seven Cows," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., February 18, 1922, Newspaper Archive, www.gastearsivi.com/
