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...point to a growing record of achievement. Old-age pensions had been increased from ten shillings to one pound weekly. The weekly allowance to wives and families of men in the armed forces had been raised one shilling for wives, one shilling sixpence for the first two children. The dole had been increased from 26 to 30 shillings for man & wife, from 35 to 41 shillings threepence for a family of five. A new wage scale and more liberal workmen's compensation rates had been obtained. Labor also took credit for the Emergency Powers Bill granting the Government power...
Borough officials all over London were working 16 hours daily to ease the plight of bombed-out people. But until the two new Coordinators should have time to use their dictatorial powers and slash red tape it was impossible for an evacuee to draw dole money, get railway fare for a destination in the country, secure transfer of ration cards, have children shifted from one school to another or obtain new billeting without standing in line for hours, or even days, at various offices. In one London area an official took some homeless children to a public bath, spent half...
...planes. The siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole ful wail which depresses all but the most stouthearted...
Pioneers in the use of high-brow art in advertising (they had already got the Dole pineapple people to hire top-flight U. S. artists to paint pineapples in Hawaii -TIME, Feb. 12), N. W. Ayer suggested that the De Beers syndicate buy paintings by famous modernists, reproduce them in color alongside their diamond ads. The De Beers syndicate obediently bought about $20,000 worth of modern art by such headliners as Picasso, Matisse, Dali, Derain, Dufy, Marie Laurencin, got ready to reproduce them, by expensive color processes, as diamond...
...this show they studiously ignored advertising clients. Robert Riggs (Dole pineapple, Goodyear tires) exhibited his circus lithographs, which have steadily won critical acclaim in the past six years. A surrealist painting was hung by famed French Poster Artist A. M. Cassandre (Dubonnet). Instead of seminudes in bathtubs for Cannon towels, Gladys Rockmore Davis sent a demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally...