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...9d. 23/2...
Addition and subtraction were perhaps no more difficult than they were for the Romans, who could easily take XXXIX from CIV, but multiplication and division often unhinged the juvenile mind. Sample: if 23 cricket bats cost ?25 11s. 9d., how much does one cricket bat cost...
...London financial circles, traders gossiped and wondered as the stock of Selfridge's department store scooted from 31s. 9d. a share to 52s. 6d. in six months. Last week they heard the reason for the rise. Lord Woolton, chairman of the Conservative Party and of Lewis' Investment Trust Ltd., which owns a big chain of provincial department stores, had put in a $9,500,000 (?3,412,000) bid for the store. When Lord Woolton offered 65s. a share, Selfridge's Chairman Horace Holmes quickly advised his stockholders to sell. At the news, Selfridge's stock...
...great store by her weekly 5-oz. ration of chocolate, caches it in the office filing cabinet. One morning last January Miss Maloney entered her office at David Shanks & Co., Birmingham manufacturers of sheet-metal pressings, found files and paper strewn about, the cash box rifled of ?4 2s. 9d. Her chocolate bar was half eaten...
...convenience to traveling subscribers, 4,000 copies of TIME are rushed to Europe each week, reaching British and usually French newsstands while the same issue is still on sale in New York City. In England, where the office of the European distributor is located, the price is everywhere 9d. (18?). On the Continent a few shopkeepers charge what they can get, unfortunately are not subject to TIME'S regulation. European readers who wish may have TIME sent to them direct from the Circulation Office at 350 East 22nd Street, Chicago, Ill. for $7 a year...