One Hears
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That farmers are appropriately asking for green petrol—tax free !
That Yorkshire operators show no tendency to " woolly " thinking. s . .
That, from the point of view of heat convection, aluminium paint is most ineffeetive for radiators.
That, according to authorities on the subject, it tends to keep the heat in the water.
That the road hog, whilst inconveniencing and endangering others, usually contrives to save his own bacon.
That ballotini are small glass balls now used for coating white lines on roads,odirection signs and for indicating kerbs.
That many people fail to realize that magnetos for ignition are still made in considerable numbers— largely for tractors.
That, as tall buildings are Called skyscrapers, the overhead roads (foreshadowed in a recent Editorial) might be called sky-takers.
That the Government still hopes to nationalize nationalization.
Of an artist greatly impressed by the beauty of some tyre-tread. patterns.
That the M. of T. has evidently decided that the buffet coach has suffered buffets enough.
That the vicious circle is still with us and higher wages all round wouldn't make it all square.
Of an over-60 marvelling at the vast improvements in transport facilities since he "came oil the assembly line."
Of someone asking if, when Eire transport is nationalized, trains will reallyrun or keep on crawling. •
That for the success of international rail transport, men's minds, as well as their trains, must run on lines of standard gauge.
Country housewives expressing the fear that increasing the price of petrol will decrease the visits of the laundry van. .
That, in consequence, they consider it to be a dirty affair.
Of Fitton —a remarkable LC I. plastic which withstands extremes of heat and Cold and is unaffected by organic solvents, acids or alkatis, but its cost is high.
That this verse, seen in a school, might be suitable for a factory:— " Use in beauty, joy in work,
Pride-that will not stoop to shirk,
Conscience that sustains the pride, These let's scatter far and wide."