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...Today I broke fresh grounds with a huge gamble. I have paid ?11 10s. 0d. cash (leaving myself with ?2 capital) for Of Human Bondage, first edition . . . Willy is coming to tea next Friday. If he will autograph this copy I am sure that I can get ?20 for it . . . Later: Willy obliged-but he autographed it to me. I can't afford to keep it. It's the most precious thing I possess. Oh, I wish I was rich! . . . Later: An American named Schwartz has paid...
...71st annual conference at Blackpool last week. Her husband, said Mrs. Poynter, earned only ?4 17s. 2d. (about $13.50) weekly, so that she had to leave her children and go out scrubbing. She had been better off before the war when her husband had brought home only ?2 10s. By thus dramatically emphasizing the rise in the cost of living and affirming her faith in the Conservative Party, now in opposition, Mrs. Poynter had keynoted the Tory campaign policy. Said Party Leader Winston Churchill: "Mrs. Poynter has made her point...
...waged its war in the air against negligible Red opposition- a few propeller-driven Yak 3s, 7s, 9s and 15s, some Ilyushin 10s. This week, the Air Force heard what might prove to be serious news. A number of new-type Russian-made jet fighters, said a MacArthur communique, had been sighted in action over Chongju. The Reds' new plane was described as "smaller than the American F-80, with swept-back wings, a stubby fuselage and blunt nose...
...decided edge and was taking regular advantage of it (see above). The Russian planes so far used by the North Koreans have been Yak propeller-driven fighters and Ilyushin assault planes. The planes in use have been Yak-3s and Yak-y-Bs, perhaps some Yak-9s, Il-10s...
...comment truthfully on the "wery remarkable circumstance,' sir, that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." Today only the rich can afford oysters. The best Colchesters cost 16s. ($3.20) a dozen, Whitstable natives IDS. to 125. ($2 to $2.40), imported oysters from Holland and Brittany 8s. to 10s...