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One Hears

7th December 1956
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

The query within a query, "Shall we see a revival of the Is your journey really necessary?' poster?"

Of the (at first sight astonishing) statement that an East Sussex town with a population of over 10,000 "has only one street."

That the majority of its inhabitants lives in roads, lanes, avenues, drives, crescents, closes, etc.

That there would be great local indignation if some of its many new building estates dared to introduce another "Street."

That the Champion Sparking Plug Co., Ltd., have issued, for the use of dealers and garages, a-"special "

warning" poster, emphasizing that old, dirty and inefficient plugs cause fuel wastage. That road transport regards subsidizing of the railways as discouraging saving.

That nobody seems ip be making any profit out of the Canal crisis except Russia and the British railways.

That, purely as a temporary measure, less horse meat might help to meet the need for local road transport.

That this would not be sowing wild oats, although even such provender might become scarce.

From a reader: "Who was the author' of that rather pessimistic, but fairly truthful, dictum: 'To work to get the bread to get the strength to work, that's life '? "

Of more tuyere (gas-producer) plans.

Of towers of strength to prevent the isolation of the Isle of Sheppey.

Of a doleful feeling that we, the dole

less, may have to pay the railway's dole.

The theme of the new film " Mobilgas Economy Run 1956" is that safe driving .means fuel economy.

That this principle is equally applicable to drivers of both commercial and private vehicles.

That a recent heading "Aluminium Finishes" to a paragraph did not imply that aluminium is finished.

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