One Hears
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Of somebody saying that he is glad that he has no shares in nationalized undertakings.
That he evidently forgets that, as taxpayers, we are all hit by any losses in these.
That "softly, softly, catchee monkey rnay be true in many instances, but is not sufficient for all overseas trade.
That trade battles are won not on playing fields, bu( on displaying fields, and in the latter we may have something to learn.
That a fuel cell" to develop electricity without combustion, is being used to light a bank of scaled-beam headlamps at the Brussels Fair.
That it is a product of the National Carbon Co., and acts on the principle of producing free electrons from an electrolyte into which is passed hydrogen and oxygen through semi-porous carbon electrodes.
That tours by helicopter might take much of the pleasure out of the journey time and make tourists rely on only that at the stops.
Views from some that the "hinged" bus could do much useful angling for custom in this country but more so if it could be operated legally.
That some think the B.T.C., having already received £118m. of its loan for railway improvement, is showing the usual ingratitude of a spoilt child. Of a recurrence of the "last-out-of-the-road " kids, who risk their lives and may cause accidents.
Of one driver who thinks that they are Teddy Boys in the making.
That the new zig-zag crossings were not designed particularly for those who are rocky in their gait.
That a farmer emigrating to Canada is taking his David Brown tractor, which he won in a competition.
That second thoughts are sometimes best and that is certainly the case with the British pavilions at Brussels.
That these, at first adversely criticised, are now agclairned as star turns.
That a " no-hearing " decision is fair, wise and economical when Licensing Authorities decide there is nothing to hear: That an axe on the tax might save the economic situation for many bus companies, as well as the threat to the jobs of numerous bus employees.
That simple solutions of the problems of industrial unrest and international clashes are giving armchair critics a whale of a time between Test matches.
Suggestions that the " workers" should beware, because, with rising wages and decreasing working hours they will soon be among the "idle rich "—whom they pretend to eRGE despise.