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The remark that even the most modern of our refuse collectors are has-bins.
That as towns expand the crews needed to work with each refuse collector increase in size and their wages necessitate a rise in the rates.
Of the curious paradox that stocks have risen in value white stocks have fallen in quantity.
That Old King Cole would not have been so merry today.
That if the Government will take care of the roads, transport can take care of itself and its loads. That Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., have done, and are doing, much to encourage artists.
That, according to their managing director, Mr. C. M. Vignoles, over 200 pictures were painted for them between 1930-39 by both famous and littleknown artists.
That a woman who voted for the Socialists said frankly that she was very pleased at the Tory success.
That the reasons she gave were the national importance of a continuity of the foreign policy adopted by the previous Government and the need for strength.
That she could see nothing inconsistent in her action.
That the strike of footplate men, as the result of its general effects, may, in the end, have done more to discourage similar action by other workers than could any other factor.
That the public are becoming highly incensed at this constantly recurring foolishness—and the working classes form a high proportion of the public.
That near Padua recently, the whole traffic on an important and busy main road was held up for over 30 min. by a cycle race, hundreds of passengers in buses and coaches being almost stifled by heat in the stationary vehicles.