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That highly perishable goods can easily become even " higher " in a heat wave.
That three Russian dogs have made rocket flights to heights of over 60 miles—and survived.
That we might try the effect on dogs (not of the gay variety), of taxi rides through London's peakhours traffic.
The suggestion that drivers of vehicles carrying bullion or other valuable loads, Shoulel wear coshproof helmets. , Of those who feel convinced that it is wiser to spend Britain's money on offensive defence than waste it on an inoffensive and ineffectual kind.
That costs in transport and industry in general are like the grand old Duke of York's 10,000 men, for "when they were up, they were up . . . ", after that any analogy ceases. Complaints of deafening noise and suffocating fumes from the Mersey Tunnel.
That British commercial vehicles have proved their powers of staying in many countries where they get rough going.
A reminder to private hauliers that leaves, scattered by Boreas, wither, but leaflets scattered by B.R.S. may be saved for consideration by traders.
That, when the notes of one U.N. delegate's speech inadvertently fell into the hands of another he found one passage marked "Weak point. Shout."
From a reader suggesting that the 13.B.C. must be a little crazy to provide a 10-minute programme of the noise made by trains in other countries.
That in many British Railways hotels one can hear them all night without switching on That no need for any excuse is best.
The prophecy that travelling hopefully will be the nearest the railways will get to monopolistic control of traffic.
That the drop in our exports is a feather in the cap of those who earn their overtime pay by stirring up industrial trouble.
That country districts which are rapidly becoming built-up areas are urgently demanding bus-service extensions or the creation of new routes.