Word: jenkinses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard Slog. Just about the only country of Western Europe that is not enjoying the boom is Britain, which is coming to grips with the fiercely deflationary budget that Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins promised would produce "two years of hard slog." Together with devaluation, the government hopes to...
The measure thus creates a situation in which it can be literally unprofitable to hold income-yielding investments. What especially disturbs many of the 95,000 Britons affected by the tax is the belief that they are, in effect, being penalized for investing in the very economy that the government...
For them, the battle cry of women's rights was only a musty echo from the past. Yet, 120 years after the Seneca Falls declaration, women's clubs are still holding "First Ladies Luncheons." And last week in New York a prominent female correspondent was barred from a press luncheon...
3. Chicago--Leo Durocher talks and manages a good game. Relying on a surprising 20 victory performance from Ferguson Jenkins and the expected slugging of Ron Santo and Ernie Banks, the "Lip" drove the Cubs from the cellar to third last year. Where they'll remain, pending much needed experience...
Due' to taxes and devaluation, Qrit-ons can expect their cost of living in 1968 to increase at least 5% and possibly more. But Jenkins also announced that he intends to hold Britain's wage increases to a maximum of 3½% for another 18 months. That grim...