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Time to Relax. Instead of last year's $812 million surplus, Thorneycroft foresaw a whopping $1.5 billion operating surplus from buoyant tax returns and the big savings in defense. He intended to pass out $275 million at once in tax relief. Brushing aside fearful warnings of inflation, he said...
On Sunday. Dec. 28. 1879. the 13 central spans (the "High Girders") of the Tay Bridge broke under a wind of hurricane force and fell into the stormy estuary; with them fell a train carrying 75 men, women and children. There were no survivors. For weeks afterwards divers groped about...
As newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, Peter Thorneycroft is responsible for every pound, shilling and penny in Her Majesty's treasury. His butler is not, and it is just as well. For last week Thorneycroft's butler admitted that only six years ago he had taken a...
Numerous expedients, providing an interesting comparison with today's high-powered fund drives, were used to raise money. Harvard had no endowment at the time, but the General Court of Massachusetts granted the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry to the College. This amounted to about 30 pounds a year...
The whole show James Thurber has pronounced "the finest union of comedy and music" in his experience. And others have said much the same thing. Shaw, always a canny man with a shilling, would have appreciated more vividly the coarser tribute of the money that is pouring into Lady'...