Entry 64 · Book chapter 65

April 15 1944

A marriage candidate frankly admits she's supported by both an Italian major and an American corporal, revealing the going economics of such arrangements.

Reflections

The arithmetic of survival wages

Cross-checking a marriage candidate's income against real wage figures — a major earning £7 10s a month, a postman far less — Lewis lays out the impossible arithmetic facing a family of seven trying to survive on about a pound a month.

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