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That we're to ration to smash Hun.
That the rash uns are -those who won't.
Of More Dunlop acres as well as dividends.
Of much man-power waste not yet ex-St.Erminated.
That merc L.G,O.C. motorbuses Lave been taken for the Front.
That Albion now pertains to Scotland by law as well as history.
. That orders and shipments for Russia are going through all the time.
That Austin's works are one of the first on to Ford agrimotor production.
That the R.F.C. has temporarily lopped the Dunlop bough in Albany Street, N.W.
That there's both an A.M. and a P.M. in the M. of M., but that they both start at 9.30.; That Foden steamers with shells and tanks have led to much foc-cussing by the enemy.
That coal-gas always ignites and fires without missing when used as fuel in a petrol engine. -• That whilst the Food Controller may regulate the weight of the bun ha cannot make a-bun-dance.
That Vandervell's football match realized 2122 12s. for the benefit of St. Dunstan's Hostel for blind soldiers.
That if what's ordered to be done is done, it's as well to let a good man get the result that's wanted his own way.
That it takes an old campaigner to make himself happy when given nothing more than a match and a Wimp of raw meat.
That reinforced concrete will prove to be one of the largest after-peace savers of steel, timber, building and read materials generally.
That the A.S.C. is now admitted to be very much more than a mere combination of the functions of Carter Paterson and Joseph Lyons.
That with timber scarce obtainable and very dear it may soon become necessary to use reinforced -mat crete to make motor-lorry platforms.
That the lower average alacrity of pedestrian > in London is very noticeable as compared with prewar days when all the young men were with us. Early grumbles about the heat.
Of science lectures for higher students at the Austin works.
That the Oldham .fire brigade now believes in bid hands standing by at a:fire.
. That if buses are wanted anywhere they are at Hammersmith for Barnes, and especially at night. • That the electrical journals are so observant that their editors' imaginations get the better of some of them.
That taxation. may prove to,be simplified by Mr. Boner Law's new scheme, but that many people think otherwise.
Suggestions that Sir Marcus Samna Bart., should be appointed Petroleum Controller—and that it's not , a bad suggestion either: -That it is a greater victory to get put. of . the Bakerloo " tube" _between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening than it is.-to get in. . .
That no man is truly indispensable, but that his value may be such that his removal may .resnit in the gravest inconvenience.
That the demand for 10s. extra wages per -week per man and woman if granted, likely to deal Motorbus fares their final blow up.
That a tractor which is light for its power may be too light for the land in the absence of axle-weight redistribution, especially in England.
From 8ir Albert Stanley, as from "The Inspector" a week or two ago, that " there:is far too' much of what is termed the retention of business Secrets in this country : there should he afreer exchange of idfas."