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...staggering tax load Britons have been carrying, this week a few more pounds were added, not to make Britain's budget balance (which is impossible) but to forestall threatening inflation. Into the House of Commons strode Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood with a new war budget, calling for a record outlay of ?4,207,000,000 ($16,828,000,000) in the next twelve months. The basic income-tax rate was upped from...
...draft him ahead of his normal order, reported at Fort Ord, Calif., passed his medical (see cut), and put in for transfer to the Air Corps. Professional Golfer Ed ("Porky") Oliver flew North from a Florida tournament, turned up at Fort Dix, N. J., along with Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Dead End, The World We Make}. Private Kingsley welcomed his year in the Army, proposed to write a play about...
...British Government backed up Dr. Aasgaard's belief by announcing last week that Britain's churches, unlike almost everybody else, will not have to pay compulsory insurance premiums on their property (TIME, March 10). His Majesty's Government, said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, will pay the premiums instead, thus insuring the rebuilding of bombed-out churches, chapels, parsonages, parish houses. This was good news indeed to British churchmen, who have already seen thousands of churches bombed, including 200 Methodist and 114 Baptist in the London area alone...
With Dr. Houser will sail Harold B. Foy, of the American Red Cross, who will be director of accounts for the hospital, and Kingsley Van A. Gwyer, an engineer, who will supervise erection of the 126-bed, prefabricated "siege" hospital...
...inwardly men were asking anxious questions. And leaders in Britain sensed this. In their various ways they answered the questions. Winston Churchill's great prose and withering scorn calmed and delighted his people. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, announcing two new war loans, made the people proud by telling how they had subscribed $5,076,000,000 for the war effort in a year. Lord Horder allayed the people's concern about epidemics with announcement of steps to rid underground shelters of infectious pests...