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01 an Irish driver talking about his oil-filther. The hope_expressed that he doesn't keep it in that condition.
That making Torquay an A.R.O. sub-area isn't just Torquay-talk.
That planning isn't all plain sailing and we may expect to find some plans ailing.
-That in Vienna trams are towing chains of lorries in order to save liquid fuel.
That the building of 400,000 houses a year will involve a great deal of mad transport.
Surprise expressed that a recent Brains Trust seemed foggy about the meaning of "private enterprise."
That faulty baling sometimes gives the route followed by the collector's lorry the appearance of a paper chase. ' That nationalization savours too much of Nazi.
ization.
That our industry must remain as a democracy within a democracy.
That, to save every little piece of paper is to bring the big peace nearer.
Of a former shorthand-typist winning a tractorploughing prize in Hertfordshire.
A warning to the over-optimistic that Italy's capitu lation doesn't mean unlimited ice-cream to-morrow.
That an American mechanized division uses 18,000 gallons of petrol per hour when moving at normal
speed.
From an anonyinous writer of Folkestone that he would bet we will not print smile verses which he enclosed.
That he would have won—we won't!
Of some who regard advisory bodies as mere busy bodies.
-0 ' 411That the Service League seems to have caught the Service" lug."
That you must look at things all round if you want to keep square.
That it is better to have a divinity than 'a ministry to shape
our ends.
That coach and bus workers of London Transport have contributed over £18,000 in pennies to The Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund.