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...Labor government, many of whose members are middle-class intellectuals, is acutely aware of the problem. So are Britain's social scientists. In a report published recently, the Nuffield Foundation (endowed by upper middle-class Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield) disclosed a grant of $80,000 to the London School of Economics for an exhaustive five-year study of the middle-class problem. Captained by Caradog Jones, M.A., a retired middle-class professor whose last big job was a survey of the depressed Merseyside area (around Liverpool), the researchers will study not only present problems but "how people rise...
...Manhattan dealer advertised a "distinctive motor car, the only car of its kind available." Its engine was by Rolls-Royce, its body custom-made by Labourdette of France. Its total cost (in 1947): $44,000. It could be had today, the dealer said, for only...
From now on, all drivers who ignore their first meter violation tickets will find that a second offense brings a tow-truck to haul their cars to a garage. Last year, police checked Massachusetts cars at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and then summoned owners to be fined. However, they had no way of punishing out-of-state violators...
...Bigger: the gifts of Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield (by now amounting to some $12 million) to endow university medical research and establish Nuffield College (for public affairs and economics...
Student owners of Massachusetts registered autos will have to have them inspected during October. Inspections are to be made at Official Inspection Stations, according to the Registry of Motor Vehicles...