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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the preferential ballot system, inaugurated by the Council's revised constitution, men polling the lowest number of first place votes were successively dropped and their ballots redistributed according to second, third, and fourth selections until only the predetermined number of candidates remained...
Robin Hood. Dalton gave the lowest wage group the solace of a cut in income taxes which brought them back to about the 1940 level. The basic rate of nine shillings to the pound (45%) remained. But by lifting the basic exemptions and increasing allowances for dependents, the budget took income tax entirely off about 750,000 low-income Britons. Under the new schedule, a British couple with two children will pay no tax unless they earn more than $28 a week, and they would not pay the 45% rate unless they earned more than $40 a week. The change...
...sharp increase in fares has scared off few travelers. First-class rates on the Elizabeth are up 27% over prewar-a minimum of $365 one way. Other rates are up as much as 50% (lowest fare: $165, tourist class). Other liners have boosted prices proportionately. But such figures will be purely academic to travelers unless they have their space already allotted. Practically all ships are booked solid to September, with few cancellations coming in. Example: for the 852 berths on its three ships, Holland America Line has a waiting list of 10,000. Most ship operators frankly admit that only...
Obviously Marshal Tito was just a square. He wasn't hep and neither was Yugoslavia's newspaper Glas. Said Glas: jazz is "senseless, impossible combinations of sounds calculated to arouse the lowest, most atavistic and long-suppressed instincts in man." Worse than that, added Glas, it is "music conditioned and tied up with capitalist society...
...expendable advisory system should not be allowed. Granting that functions such as study help, course guidance, and even aid in personal problems should be provided by the University, the advisory system has shown itself by popular consensus to be relatively unsuited to this sort of work. Yet the average lowest paid advisor makes four hundred dollars a year for his task--based on a flat rate of twenty dollars per student. If this money were diverted to extend tutorial, admittedly invaluable in the social sciences, it might well find better use. The functions now argued as in the advisory province...