Word: 6d
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising amount of ignorance about America. People here seem to think Americans eat nothing but steak and ride in enormous cars. Of course, that's nonsense." Then he went to work to plug his new book, Don Iddon's America (Falcon Press, London; 125, 6d), a collection of his columns which have been carefully edited with the wisdom of hindsight. Some still unedited Iddon items: ¶"The electric chair is working overtime and Sing Sing's Death Row is jammed as detectives round up gun-happy youths hepped up with dope." ¶"The sleeping-pill habit...
...college without an orrery* was as behind the times as a modern university without a cyclotron. So, for ?229 115. 6d., the College of New Jersey bought one of the mechanical planetariums from a Philadelphia clockmaker and installed it in Nassau Hall. When it worked, students of "Natural Philosophy" watched planets on long arms circle about a 4 ft. universe. The sun and moon moved in their appointed orbits; hands pointed to the proper phase of the zodiac marked on a brass ring that encircled the painted, deep-blue sky. Near the top, an inset dial indicated...
...that they had been locked out by their employers, the London Master Printers Association. The association retorted that it had fired the printers for refusing to abolish overtime restrictions. They had been required to do so under a government arbitration decision awarding the men a weekly raise of 3s. 6d...