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Of the camouflage of Curry. Of Stenson's safe thousand.
That E.P.T. will remain at 80 per cent.
That many have expected E.P.T. to soar to such heights as 90 and even 100 per cent.
That even 20 per cent, provides sufficient incentive.
Restive movements among " hexagenarians."
That "petrol" is a household word—and little else.
That road damage would not be a big price for Victory.
That the principle of priority will undoubtedly be pushed further.
That the ball bearings of to-day are not the ball bearings of yesterday.
That the " first class " tramcars in I,iverpool are the only ones we know.
That by far the majority of taxi fares are recorded en German-made taximeters.
-ThatAmerica will make 70,000 tractors during the financial year ending June next.
That Providence provided horses with a very inefficient type of reversing gear.
That thoughts are running on producer gas, but that weight seems to be the subverter.
Of a feverish search for dictionaries when the subject of the recent I.A.E. lecture was made public. . That 110 per week, in cold print, was a douche for dome of our would-be production professors.
That China has at last decided to build roadways between the towns and the railway stations.
That the tramcar services in some Lancashire towns are run without regard to time or connections.
That one never knows the time of the last tram, and would-be passengers often' have to walic miles.
No longer of the trolleybus, or the shock-shifter, both subjects of great controversy not long ago.
That the procedure of a modern Government committee is to invite ideas, and then to "sit" on them.
That there is a serious surplus of gasolene in America, and that everyone there is being urged to use it as storage is overtaxed.
From a correspondent in France that, in the Service, an admixture of benzoic and petrol (in the proportions of 1 to 5) has lately been commenced.
That the principal difficulty of filling the requirements of one Government litepartment is that some other Government Department generally won't let you.
That as half a loaf is better than no bread, tractor dealers have to accept the Government controlled prices with as good a grace as they can and be thank ful for even small merciesthese days.
That the latest tendency in American design is to• locate the exhaugt pipe at the forward end of the engine in order to avoid complication with the steering gear arid to keep the heat from the driver's feet.