Word: 1d
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What will bother Britons at least as much as figuring out how much things cost is that when they finally do, they will discover that prices have been upped. Public lavatories, for example, will cost 1 p. (2.4?) instead of 1d. (1?) after Feb. 15. Coffee machines will cost 50% more, launderettes 30% more. And while many shops were rounding prices up to the nearest new penny-and beyond-the Ministry of Defense admitted that war veterans' pensions have been "rounded down" to the nearest new penny. While businesses figured out how best to pay for their changeover expenses...