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Jumping The Gun
A brigadier who used to exhort everyone to "do it now" had his guns spiked by a battery that he was going to inspect. As he approached the battery office he saw painted all over......
Painful Overload
Fines for overloading in Pennsylvania, USA, really hurt. The average excess on 147 overweight lorries stopped on the road was about 7,000lb and the average fine was $1,300. The......
Needless Tragedy
Minutes after reading of a man, who was killed while attending to a vehicle on the hard shoulder of a motorway, I picked up a new booklet that is intended to prevent such......
Living It Up At 81
At 81, Black Jack, a happy extrovert, is devoted to showbiz, drinks with moderation, enjoys a quiet smoke and occasionally blows his top. "You could say that he is more than a......
Simply Multiply
"Hole in one from Wilcox' the heading to a story from company about the use of aluminium tipping body to peat for new greens on a c course at Woburn. School& ren might be made......
Not What They Seem
Those whose literary diet is limited to newspaper headlines liable to reach strange conclusions. A headline in the Novern issue of Public Service, the Nalgo journal, said:......
Not So Dusty
Your friendly dustman may not be all he seems. He may belonc Special Branch. FBI agents in New York posed as dustmen to uncover 1 activities of gangsters who were trying to......
Costly Bob's Worth
London bus fares seem positively cheap when one remembi that the fare from Paddington to the Bank by Shillibee single-deck, three-horse, 20-seat bus in 1829 was a shillir That......