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Since September Britons' weekly price-fixed beef, mutton and pork ration had fallen from two shillings twopence (43?) to one-and-ten (37?), then one-and-six (30?), then one-and-twopence (23?), and finally, last month to one shilling (20?) -enough to buy about a pound of stewing...
Advancing steadily in power, Labor could also point to a growing record of achievement. Old-age pensions had been increased from ten shillings to one pound weekly. The weekly allowance to wives and families of men in the armed forces had been raised one shilling for wives, one shilling sixpence...
Britain's fussy education authorities, reluctant to permit the contest at all, drew the line at prizes, allowed only Awards of Merit. Said the publicity adviser of the campaign: "Five-or ten-shilling prizes would have made a tremendous difference to the 60 successful kids. But there are more...
With prices from a shilling (20?) to three-and-six (70?), the Philharmonic tour brought out working folk in swarms. In Manchester, the inevitable man-in-the-pub exclaimed: "It's made me find out I'm a bloody high-brow."
Meanwhile music had been mobilized as a national morale builder. In London, shilling concerts organized by Pianist Myra Hess in the National Gallery (de nuded of its pictures) still attracted 500 to 1,500 people every noonday. Plodding old Sir Henry Wood began his 46th-and-farewell year as conductor...