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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...
...platform. . . . The consecration service (which will be amplified) will then proceed, after which His Majesty will address the troops. . . . His Majesty will then ride back to Buckingham Palace at the head of the troops who will march in column of fours. The price of reserved seats will be 15s. and of unreserved seats...
...payrolls. In Ohio 3% was proposed. When a man becomes unemployed there is a "waiting period" before benefits begin: in England six days; in Wisconsin two weeks; under the Ohio plan three weeks. Then the unemployed, having registered at an official employment office, begin to draw benefits: in England 15s 3d ($3.81) per week; in Wisconsin 50% of weekly wages but not less than $5 nor more than $10; in Ohio 50% of weekly wages but not more than $15. Obviously some workers soon exhaust their benefits and are in need. Then relief organizations take them over and they...
...hammer at 165.2 1-2, (breaking a record of 25 years' standing), the discus at 135.7 1-4 and the pole vault at 13.4. Furthermore, two other Yale vaulters cleared 12.5, and its best high hurdler was a scant three yards behind Ben Hedges, the great Princeton captain, in 15s. Therefore it requires no expert to appreciate the magnitude of the task confronting the Harvard athletes at New Haven tomorrow...