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Allowances Were Small: The nightmare years following the war, when the allowances were small and the spread great, when black market slickers lurked in knots at all tourist corners of Paris, are now but a dismal memory. The furtive money-wolves may still be seen now and then lurking outside the American Express Office or Cook's but they are few and their business is in a slump.
Liberal allowances for the importation of cigarettes, without duty, are granted nowadays to American travelers, much more liberal, I might mention, than the allowances granted to British and Continental visitors. France and Ireland actually permit us to bring in one thousand, five full cartons, per person. (France requires that they be in your hand luggage, to avoid duty.) Most other countries set the figure at 400. A very few (e.g. Austria and Greece) set it at 200, while Finland allows 100, Turkey a paltry 50, Yugoslavia "a reasonable number," whatever that may mean. (It means, in my experience, that they are not too fussy on the subject.) Of course these limits change from time to time, so don't depend on the above as anything fixed and final.
Neither aldermen nor councillors are paid; they work part-time and receive only small traveling expenses and loss-of-earnings allowances.Composition. The size of councils in Britain is much larger than in most countries; the largest has more than 100 members. It has been suggested that the maximum be 75, but many observers fear that a reduction in size would make councils less representative. |
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