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That ratting may follow ratification.
There's benzole in the air everywhere.
That those super-power stations will not happen.
That Messrs. Harvey Frost and Co. have a solid proposition.
That Major Hamer, of the Ministry of Transport, is a, Lancastrian.
That with petrol at its present price benzole could easily be the better 'ale.
That the French Government is hustling to get pos-' stasion of certain Parks.
That the " Squire " is still power in the land— particularly the Straker-Squire.
That turn-over of banking turnover is at the back of recent Lancashire cotton deals.
That. other countries may be en the right side but that we prefer to be left, as we are.
That some firms' prospects are far from golden, but that Austin's, at any rate, are of an argentine order.
That several commercial-motor manufacturers are helping to keep their works going by acquirements from the Disposals Board.
That there's insufficient long-staple cotton to supply the pneumatic-tyre trade, and that somebody's going to be left out in the cold.
Of frenzied visits to America.
That the modern pit " pony " is born blind.
That the newest Lacre should sweep all before it.
That it's tactless to seek to keep steam taxless.
One should believe only half one sees, but all "one hears."
That the taxi flag is generally knocked down to the highest bidder.
Of a simple positive-feed carburetter that-does the economy trick every time.
That one of the oil trusts is bidding high for crude benzole as part of a plan of campaign.
That we may have Mr. Shrapnell-Smith's "Horseless Sunday" yet—and every Sunday, too.
That there's plenty of jam at the docks and on the railways, and that most people agree that it isn't worth preserving.
That a controversy is imminent as ti whether the distillation of petrol from imported crude oil can properly be treated as home production.
That England is not in all directions blind to the necessity for economy ; as undertakers' charges have gone up, the London death rate has gone down.
A query, from a pig keeper, as to whether one ton of fish-meal could be brought from Grimsby to Hayward's Heath by Motor transport for less than the El 16s. 9d. freight charged by the railway.