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Hears—
The query "Is the great tyre bubble going to be burst? "
That it takes a rubber-neck nowadays to know all about rubber and "rubber."
That grocery-store cats are apt to get lost through their habit of going on mouse hunts in wholesalers' supply vans.
That a driver and his mate may not know from which shop a cat came, but probably try to find a home for it.
A prophecy that if fares rise much higher, traffic problems will be further complicated by "a rash of motor-scooters."
That London bus crews, who probably absorb more oil-engine fumes than most people, do not suffer excessively from lung cancer.
Doubts expressed as to whether small, privately owned buses would be a paying proposition, considering the high cpst of fuel and everything else. That the police are very often, but by no means always, in the right. \ That even the Germans are beginning to realize that wearing uniforms is not a sign of infallibility.
That Mr. Butler seems at present to be the boy nobody/ loves, but economists credit him with telescopic vision.
That the Chancellor of the Exchequer who can please everyone has yet to be born—and may never be.
Of a reader's wife who believes that certain detergents affect the surface of some objects they " clean " and make it more liable to attract dirt.
That complaints about the untidiness of new roads in a certain town led to the mobilization of all the roadmen in the district for several days' intensive " spit-and-pblish."