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British banks, notably the dominant Big Five, have long been exclusively middle-and upper-class institutions. Now anxious to woo the prospering workers, the banks welcomed a provision in the law that would allow workers to have their salaries credited directly to bank accounts. But they feared the prospect of everybody in Britain stampeding to the banks on Friday afternoon to cash their checks. "The banks would be overwhelmed if there were such a mad rush," says Barclays Bank Vice Chairman Ronald Thornton. Small trades men also disliked the idea of having to cash a flurry of checks, fear that...
Toward the end of the 18th century, servants were so numerous and idle in upper-class houses that they became a grievous social problem. House guests and even dinner guests were cadged mercilessly for tips. "It was customary," writes Turner, "for the servants to line up in the hall in a double row, like musketeers, and to extend their palms quite openly. The guest would be expected to disburse sums from left to right alternately as he headed for the door...
...Latin America's biggest discounters, with 1962 sales of $16.6 million. This week their Almacenes Aurrera, or Forward Stores, are opening a seventh store in Mexico City, and have set a May opening for their eighth and biggest, a $1,200,000 store in the city's upper-class residential area of Lomas...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Documentary on upper-class life in Peru. Color...
Further fascinating pages from the au thor's already fat but never fatuous note book of English upper-class doings be tween the wars...