Word: 15s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty?" said Irene Lambert. A fine red, yellow and blue snake now writhed from wrist to elbow on her husband's arm. She handed Charlie ?2 15s. and kissed her husband...
...National Health Insurance system, haggling has been chronic: British dentists are currently in a fee row with the Ministry of National Insurance (they demand ?9 9s. for a set of false teeth v. the Ministry's offer of ?7), and insurance physicians recently won a raise (to 15s. a patient) only after long dispute...
Last week, like some two million other hard-pressed British mothers, Lillian Naylor went to the local post office, presented her order book and signed her name. Promptly Wisbech's postmistress (Lillian's widowed sister) handed her ?2 15s. ($11)-the Naylor family's weekly allotment under the new plan. Other mothers collected five shillings for each of their children under 14 except the eldest...
...sails. It was the last of the big chartered governing companies which carried the City of London to India, and the Crown to the Cape, which spanned -oceans and jungles for the greater glory of Queen and Commerce. The British North Borneo Company-a private corporation whose stock fetched 15s. 6d. on the open market -was still the sole ruler over a quarter of a million natives inhabiting a territory roughly the size of Ireland. But last week the Borneo Company's rule was ending...