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...some 2,000,000 low-paid workers went the most important benefit: a single person making less than ?2 75. ($9.40) a week henceforth would pay no income tax at all. A man with a wife and five children could make up to ?9 35. ($36.60) a week before he must pay taxes. Said Dalton: "In the future it will pay to have five children." But Britons in the middle brackets would still be paying higher income taxes than comparable Americans...
...Russian announced briskly that he had not enough meat to continue supplying the city. Unless the U.S. and Britain delivered their share soon, he would henceforth supply only the Soviet sector. Heatedly his colleagues pointed out that they could contribute their shares only if the Russians speeded up the railroads under their control. Said the Russian: every effort was being made, and anyway, railroads were not his business, while food was. Said the Frenchman: France would start meat deliveries soon, but not to Berlin. The Russian sniffed. The American recalled that U.S. authorities had already delivered 9,000 tons...
After her son Maurice was born, she began to write-and to live-romantic fiction. One day she introduced into the household a pallid young man who, she explained, was henceforth to be her second "spiritual husband...
...General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President sent a copy of this sizzling document, with an equally sizzling letter. Wrote the President: policies for displaced persons are not being carried out by some subordinate officers; henceforth humane policies must be applied in the field; General Eisenhower must report back to the President as soon as possible on the steps he takes...
...matter of simplicity and to insure uniform terminology" the term "World War II." The phrase had been used, they said, "in at least seven public laws [and] has been accepted by common usage." Last week their letter, stamped "Approved" by President Truman, duly appeared in the official Federal Register, henceforth will set usage on all Government documents in the Archives...