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WHEN I left school in 1937 aged 14, I got a job near Baker Street Tube station on ten shillings a week. I gave my wages to my mother and she gave me one shilling back for myself. Mum then found me a better job, packing slimming pills into little tin boxes. My wages were 14 shillings a week — ten for Mum and four for me. By World War II, I had a job in the Singer sewing machine shop in Edgware Road until I had to go into a factory making limpet mines. My two brothers — the best anyone could have — were in the Army and ended up with awful wounds. I am 94 and when I see the way things are wasted it makes me wonder how people today would have survived in the war. They would certainly have been a lot thinner! E. Peggy Maher, Watford, Herts.