Word: 16s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rang for few Britons. In the days of Charles Dickens oysters cost a penny a dozen and Sam Weller could comment truthfully on the "wery remarkable circumstance,' sir, that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." Today only the rich can afford oysters. The best Colchesters cost 16s. ($3.20) a dozen, Whitstable natives IDS. to 125. ($2 to $2.40), imported oysters from Holland and Brittany...
...make 26 "international" fact films a year. Without much prospect of getting any fresh movie criticism out of such a busy executive, Grierson fans were poring over a collection of his old, still-fresh work recently published in England as Grierson on Documentary, edited by Forsyth Hardy (Collins, 16s.). When the book comes out in the U.S. next spring, it rates a more apt title. Actually, the collection is Grierson on practically everything cinematic. Samples...
...only woman delegate. Americans fell into the habit of introducing her as "the Mayor of Canada." She was much photographed, much interviewed. And there was New York fun for her, too. She had seafood dinners, saw Oklahoma!, shopped for a dinner dress, but found only impossible size 16s...
Sample benefits: maternity grants, ?4 ($16) plus benefits of ?1 16s ($7.20) weekly; unemployment and sickness pay, ?2 ($8) weekly for a married couple, ?1 45 ($4.80) for a single person; family allowances, 55 ($1) plus "things in kind" -school meals, milk-for each child after the first; widows' pensions, ?1 16s ($7.20) weekly for the first 13 weeks; orphans' allowances, 125 ($2.40) weekly...