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"Dull days, no rays, no raids."
That women drivers like electrics.
That every engine has its own kick.
That the Commercar is the traffic car.
Of more heights of deception in the air.
That the M.T.A. intends to knOck again.
A little Colleen Percy a'callin' at Liverpool.
That it's not yet 1914-1915-1916-1917-1.918-19=.
• That the "unseen hand" is about ready for reading.
That Prussia's "All Highest" is soon to be at his lowest.
Of very substantial bomb-proof roofs to certain new factories.
That coal-gas is more likely to go on officially than to end in a fizzle.
That the Portsmouth road is in wonderful shape, considering the traffic.
That the shorter the man the harder the reverse on a W.D. wagon under load.
That starting up on the magneto no longer need have any terrors for drivers.
That the careful driver always keeps the r.p.m. below the valve-clatter phase.
Of a new chain-track agrimotor, known to its familiars as the Virginia Creeper.
That Cannon Street (S.E. and C. Ry.) remains the dirtiest terminal station in London.
Of some people who still forget that the most important things may not be mentioned in print.
That road-damage due to the haulage of round tiniber is providing more examples of circles to be squared.
Of more look-out men posted on London roofs by private individuals to furnish independent warnings of approaching raiders.
That much of the extra cost of food goes to pay excess-profits taxes and higher wages—the old story of putting all on to the consumer.
That it's a pity Sir Eric Geddes didn't badly want tramlines at the Front, but that the trams remain useless nationally—other than locally—in the war.
There's positively no chance of getting any hightensile steel for the manufacture.of new cylinders to• hold coal-gas under compression for any commercial purpose.
That the technical institutes have made less name for themselves than has the Y.M.C.A., but that with a little less self-complacency they 'should have done something of considerable national moment. Talk of "natural service" workers.
That little is now going wrong in Russia.
That far-seeing people are buying boots.
Of steam tight in other than the usual sense.
Many noises which are not bombs exploding.
Of London engagements made "air raids permitting."
That holiday-taking remains in the making for many.
That wage-reckoning takes some doing in some works.
. That"the work of some organizing secretaries is agonizing.
That "Hobson's Choice" has many new applications nowadays.
That it's about time Germany's repaired fleet repaired elsewhere.
That some railway time-tables may now be'classed with the weather.
That much reduction of construction is due to obstruction of production.
That even our leading makers shake up their adr vertisement.copy all too seldom.
That workshops and raessrooms which were once comfortable are now too cosmopolitan.
That a certain amount of war-bread irritability is inevitable though not bred in the bone.
That the, L.C.C. trains are beginning to look as though they were trampled on overmuch.
That the acreage required to feed the horses in this country would support 30,000,000 people.
That steel for motor lorries is now about tenth on the official inter-Departmental priority list.
That Lieut.-Commander Walter G. Windham is the new Unionist candidate for the Central Hackney Parliamentary Division.
That the coustry needs a few more leaders who will sometimes have the honesty to admit that they do not know everything.
That the rep ort'of the British Commercial Gas Association on coal-gas for road traction should be available for publication any day now.
That gas engineers and managers generally can be relied upon to move along the lines of the report to the British Commercial Gas Association.
That the word " reprisals " by this country and its Press should be abandoned in favour of counter attacks," in order to accord both with effect and military requirement.