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...What may seem to some as unnecessary delay is almost always, in reality, a period of basic preparation necessary to sound achievement. . . . Few people realize that before actual production can start, months of effort must be expended upon design alone. . . . For instance . . . approximately 2,400 individual drawings are required in the complete design of the light tanks.* . . . The problem of machine tools, which is fundamental to the entire defense program, is another point where . . . it may seem that little or nothing is being done. . . . The kind of work involved does not, of course, attract headlines. Very definite progress is being...
...Against this he presented plans for new revenues of only ?239,000,000, hardly 30% of the increase in expenditure and just about enough to pay for one month of warfare. To get this new income, Sir Kingsley was obliged to ask for new taxes, both direct and hidden. Basic rate for income tax rose from 37½% to 42½%. Sir Kingsley proposed that taxes should be collected at the source-by deductions from weekly payrolls. New sales taxes on luxuries-jewels, furs, fancy hats, silk ties-were set at 24%; and on humble necessities-clothing, shoes, pots, brooms...
...defending the British position in the Middle East were the same kinds of soldiers who won it 22 years ago: 80,000 English soldiers, 15,000 Australians (not allowed in Egypt because they raised such hell there last time), 10,000 New Zealanders and several thousand Indians, in the basic force in Palestine and Egypt. To these are added numerous local detachments such as 1,000 Indians and Britons at Aden. The total strength of the R. A. F. in the region was believed to be about 1,300 planes...
Last autumn, when it appeared that Europe was beyond Basic for the moment, Ivor Richards shifted his field. With a Rockefeller Foundation grant of $10,000 a year for five years, he returned to Harvard, brought together several of his most brilliant followers, including a winsome, 24-year-old Chinese girl named T'an Pin Pin. One of the first things they did was to arrange with station WRUL, Boston, for daily, half-hour broadcasts in Basic English on short wave for Latin America. These broadcasts (news reports, features, a daily lesson in Basic) have gone on all winter...
...next autumn, however, Ivor Richards plans an extended program. He and his colleagues have completed a primary text of Basic English for Spanish-speaking peoples which will be published by Houghton Mifflin. They have also completed a first-year primer with a Portuguese text for Brazil. Two of them, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tucker, left last month for Quito, Ecuador, to establish there a Basic English School and to study the results of next autumn's broadcasts. This school will have a competitor, for there is already a well-subsidized German school in Quito...