Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somebody must have peeked last week because just before Neville Chamberlain unlocked his budget box in the House of Commons there was a great flurry on London's insurance market. Rates against increases in the income tax jumped from 15% to 45%, against increases in the tax on tea from...
...length it was 3 o'clock, the hour at which the Stock Exchange and the tea houses in Mincing Lane close. Only then was Chancellor Chamberlain ready to release the bad news: The huge cost of Britain's rearmament program (some $1,500,000,000 plus) had swallowed up not only the expected treasury surplus but made it necessary to impose additional taxes. The basic income tax rate was being raised threepence in the pound: for every $5 a Briton receives, he must pay $1.18 instead of $1.13 in income tax. His daily cup of tea will...
...Come, all ye who drink and are heavy laden.--Cambridge is to be turned into a dasert.--The Freshman is to be deprived of his beer.--Remember your fathers.--Did they not throw the tea overboard...
...League of Women Shoppers was born last June when a few ladies left a tea at the home of Mrs. Arthur Garfield Hays to call on Nathan Ohrbach, who runs a big bargain dress store on Manhattan's Union Square. Merchant Ohrbach had had a strike on his hands for months. To their great surprise the ladies left his office with the realization that they had suddenly settled the Ohrbach strike. Mrs. Hays was promptly chosen as first president of the League of Women Shoppers. Among early members were Writers Genevieve Taggard and Josephine Herbst. The organization developed...
...Alderson scrabbled in the shops of Hempstead, L. I. for cheap vegetables such as beets, carrots, potatoes. Twice a week the family also ate cheap meat, low grade eggs. A can of pears was a treat for dessert. Supper consisted of sandwiches with cocoa, tea or milk. Last week Methodist Alderson reported the five had not lost weight, had suffered no ailments worse than colds...