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...some 16 years rotund, toothless George Herbert Naylor has worked for a wholesale grocer firm in Wisbech (rhymes with fizz peach), Cambridgeshire. For almost every one of those years his plump wife Lillian has borne him a child. George's wages are ?4 10s.. a week. His eldest daughters Marian (18) and Hazel (17) bring home some ?3 between them from jobs at local shops...
...relaxation. He is as ruthless with societies of his admirers as Stalin with the opposition, and buys the postage stamps for his enormous correspondence in ?5 lots. He orders them from the village postmistress on a three ha'penny postcard. She sells the postcards to his fans for 10s. 6d. apiece. This is typical of the economic contradictions that beset the old socialist, and of which he discourses in his new book...
...Coquitlam, B.C., one Henry Steen felt something sticky on the sole of his shoe, bent down to scrape it off, unstuck a $100 bill, a $20, two $10s...
...series of preference ratings. If Mr. Reeves by some miracle were rated AA, his aluminum would be shipped posthaste. But top ratings were reserved for such MUST customers as aircraft manufacturers. Other ratings ran all the way down to A10, and Mr. Reeves presumably was somewhere near the A-10s, meaning that he had better stop worrying about aluminum and go look for a substitute. Any supplier who ignored the OPM ratings and gave a higher preference to Mr. Reeves might have to pay a fine up to $50,000, spend three years in prison...
...licensed radio sets in Britain (license fee: 10 shillings), about 600,000 are in "A" homes (?10 a week income or more); 2,250,000 in "B"' homes (?4 to ?10 weekly); 4,200,000 in "C" homes (?2 10s; to ?4 weekly); some 2,000,000 in "D" homes (below ?2 10s; a week). Average listeners per home...