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Of pools and pumps.
Of rope suspension. Go hang: That a coal strike makes us miss fire.
Of the off." . economic paradox : "Buying off, selling That when road improvements are held up, traffic isn't.
That contra-acts are poor substitutes for contracts.
That national characteristics are not the monopoly of any one -class.
Economic opinions broadcast, mostly unreinforced by sound argument.
What would have been said in the old days: " Get into mine or get out! "
S.O.S. 'phone messages for spares "blacker than ink and thicker thanmad."
That gasoline is spoken through the nose, and that petrol is paid for in the same way. .• Of searching experiments to improve eastsiron with carbon—supercharging by cementation.
Of the patternmaker's chuckle : "Foundry will have such a cod' with this pipe bend."
That in spite of the " Wheels of Industry —industry is not going as though it ran on wheels.
That the population of Britain is at present divided into two classes—those who are coal miners and those who are minus coal. That exchanges are badly out of mesh.
Praise of the Government's safety match.
Of Manchester's new traffic dam--the tram.
That the subsidized industry inevitably. subsides., That as most of us have a. bete noire, it is as well to try and over-ride it—but not literally.
That the sea has thrown up 10miles' length of asphalt along the South American Coast.
• • That it is painfully evident our own road engineers coald also do with a surfeit of this deposit.
That the Sussex County Council is making itself unpopular by picking up the entire width of the roads at one time.
That American visitors, who used to take a week to " do " our sights, stay-longer now that they come to do our drinks.