One Hears
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Of a reader referring to our issue of April 20 as " one of the most important keep-for-reference numbers."
The suggestion that when bus stops are altered a notice at the old place should direct would-be passengers to the new one That, now there are no rich for the Chancellor to soak, the motor-vehicle owners have been forced to occupy their shoes—and how they feel the pinch!
That Mr. Gaitskell dropped a brick into the petrol tank, and ripples from it are spreading incessantly.
Of hopes that the M.O.P. will help to mop up
aggressors.
That some sections of labour may do all the better for a Ministry-of Prod.
Still of open refuse carts collecting (and spreading) dust, etc., in some country districts.
Re "Performance and how to buy it," someone saying that, with prices rising daily and funds getting lower, we might publish an article on "Buying and how to perform it."
Of people wondering if, with the " credits " system so in vogue, British goods will in future bear the label "produced by Richard Stokes," as well as the trade mark. Of a surprising amount of sob-staff about the passing of the "dear old trams."
That, when very young, some of us did love to see the tram driver dancing on the sand-release pedal.
That more of us remember the mess trams made of narrow streets when we were old enough to drive a motor vehicle.
Of a growing feeling in some quarters that a driver placed at one side is placed at a disadvantage both to himself and other road users.
Of an visitor to Paris who, seeing the
many illuminated street "domes,' remarked, Why, they even light up their sewers."