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MOM HAS TO COME, TOO"

World Copyright,

1

HE WANTS HIS JOB TO STOP

B

RITAIN'S

By J. W. TAYLOR

super-sales- auction parks Mr Bryan opened

man, who holds the up.

world's record in the sale of Altogether 115 vehicle aue- used cars, is doing so well tons were held in England and

from that he is aiming to work Scotland,

which himself OUT OF HIS JOB Hons. The crowds at moine et

receipts totalled over £20 mil-. within the next few months. the auctions approached the

thousand mark.

Ho la Birmingham-bern There has, too, been the clout- George Henry Bryan, Directoring of 200 million items of spare of Disposals (Vehicles), Minus-

all

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Hall,

1.

try of Supply. In two years he parts, mainly for lorries, most Jus sold over £80 inillions of which have gone back to the worth of used cars, other veht- manufacturers to help produce cles and 250 million Items of tion in the export drive, as well spare parts.

as for servicing private vehi cles at home and abroad. His buyers ranged from "bl

Demand for vehicles of shots," who deposited bankers kinds is still very keen, salo at Bryam drafts for anything up to £20,- recónt 000 before starting the serious Leeds, £50.000 was taken business of buying, to "aply one day, Within broad limits showmen" types with thousands prices keep up. the average for of pounds worth of banknotes 10 h.D. Austin or Hillman Private wrapped in brown-paper par- Utility being £275. cel, who contrasted strangely cars, of which the Supply 1; with the homely sort of cus- limited, are fetching from £240 tomer looking for an add trailer to £800 for the verled 'normal types, But "runners cars the buyer Mr Bryan has been an aute-

con drive out of the mobile engineer since the days auction park straight away

are rare. when he started clocking In at

The highest figure- was 3,000 guineas, for a Bentley. ("with my billycan, un-

condition. der my arm."

at the saloon in first-class "he says) Daimler works. When the war Heavy came, the Ministry snapped up his services, using his *x- salmon. She is my Sunday din-perience with leading British OTHER END OF SCALE

at home motor manufacturers and abroad for the organisation Queen Mary traliers-specially At the other end of the scale, of repairs to Army vehicles.

Sitting on the

·ELL, cor stuff me with dried eggs.". said the Sweep, "if

that don't take the Untley and Palmer." ·

"What do?" I asked.

"Why," said the Sweep, "these ere little old Ministry of Food police shadowin tins of Russian crab and salmon. Cor stone the crows, It makes you think, don't it?"

"I certainly do."

"If you'd n-told me ten year ago that we'd ave to ave special police to follow tins of salmon about I'd ave called you a ilar."

"I daresay you would."

"It shows you what these ere little old splys ave brought, the country sto. Cor crikey, If little old Itler ad got ere he'd ave anged the lot of them and wouldn't ave worried."

"Nor me."

I

"All the same," soid the Sweep, "I notice they don't ave to ave special police to look after snoek."

"They certainly don't." "And they don't seem to ave got the Fiyin Squad out to stop people pinchin tinned rhubarb, which is a bit of a drug on the market."

"That's right" "So I suppose this ere Russian

worth entin if saimon is.

the spies are after it."

"Must be."

"Cor luvaduck, you with your little old typewriter could type

n nice

Fence...

by

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

Goebbels

was n

inily

70128

72.

darkness, the sauce on Mp

"She is all the mice in the world, all the fish in the sea, all the tidbits in all the ashcans

everywhere.

in London. Loitle sld:- "It seems that people are con- neeting our names. I think shall fly to Switzerland or some tehere to avoid the publicly old Letter to a stomach

(the bigger the lie, things, and gives us our the better it is belleved) told bread," shout the poor bewinder. heil-log Huns that Shakespeare ed cattle.

Gelman, Tojo, or some

"My father's father knew

whines other little monkeys, told mass- him,"

the very ed, banani-ing monkeys that worker. "They were drunk to- Japanese Invented the steam en- gether In. gine.

"Take him out and shoot him

or Jeep.

+

Mr

diesel trucks have brought in £2,000 each.

£20

of

Came the vessation of hosti- designed for the transport of aeroplanes and sections--a1= "And she has a swell chassis."lities, and the problem of dis only bringing in £10 or

posing of the avalanche of sur each. They are 40 feet long. plus vehicles that piled up all are only useful for rare, huge. aver the country. Bryan indivisible loads, and most was asked to do something them end up in the melting pot. about it. In the first stages of Light two-wheeled trailers go disposal, he gave manufacturers for £8 to £10, Jeeps and:

for amphibious DUKWS £130: own products, and considerubic The latter and the semi- amphi

Weasel are being used as connecting links between stets and the mainland in Scotland,

Mr Bryan never tried to sell Goering's four-ton, bullet-proof Mercedes. It was lent to

ent to charit able organisations for show

MY

Through another chink in the for blasphemy," says the tencher Iron Curtain it is learned that to the captain of the secret the Communists, who are doing police surrounding the workers." this sort of thing better than anybody,

claimed have Russians have written every- thing, painted everything, com- posed everything. discovered everything, and invented every- thing. That is, everything worth while.

that Paws across the sea existing method of swallowing a

*

In the night school for weary factory workers in Plonsk the teacher, is asking them questions on Russian history.

the chance of buying back their

quantities thus returned to the normal commercial But

channels.

by 1040, it became clear that it would not be possible to cope with the number of vehl- cles still piling up at the rate of 5,000 a week.

Y dear Stomach,

According to the news- papers, a new treatment for in- digestion is being tried out in University School Birmingham of Medicine,

the to replace It is hoped

THE ONLY WAY deflated balloon and Inflating it.

He decided that the only way MANHATTAN MOUSER, New inside the stomach to

to avoid having great dumps of II York underworld tom, was gastric movements and pressures

reporters ns grabbed by

he by a machine called an electrode-army, fire service and other strcalded across La Guardija nir- encephalograph.

vehicles rusting away over acres *fleld in n scramble to catch the

or. valuable farm land was start auction sales. Since then more than half a million vehi cles have thus been disposed of well as others in non-auction deals with other countries such

observe

Transatlantic plane to England This would involve swallow and Lottle, his English honey cat with the streamlined chassis.

as

as

blous

poses, So far it has raised about £20,000 for their funds.

Today Mr Bryan 1 happily shrinking. watching his kingdom

reduced to four-Mount

FAKT His auction parks have been to Dorchester: Bryam Hall, Leeds:

Fistow

CI-

Bedford, and uny at Edinburgh, Soon there will be ing electrodes instead of bal- loons, and containing the elec-

only two, for there will shortly

trodes Inside you while your.

be 100 few surplus vehicles to. Asked if this was a true reactions were recorded on a

Justify the present large ganisation. France, Belgium, Holland,

"And when that day comes, career as an American playeat, wire.

Brazil and Argentina, romance at last after his long machine at the other end of the Manhattan Mouser answered: It occurred to

you me that

The Arst great sales were at we'll have done the job we st the out to do, getting rid of 'em." might like to offer yourself as Great Missenden, where true a subject for further experi- largest

of says Mr Bryan. disposal operations

of hls He is proud

statf.. romance to me if it don't last ments as a gesture towards auf vehicles ever attempted by this of As fering

"Their job," he says, "has not more than a couple weeks.

stomachs all over the method brought in a total

Police for my career as a playeat, that world.

and been without Its temptations,. millions. 11

vast but we have never had any- the will last just as long as I can get shout

For your information, an elec- patrol dogs guarded the at around and chase a ritzy doll on trode is elther of the terminala | vehicle park from l-disposed thing remotely approaching a

U four feet."

"And who," he asks, "was the greatest admiral who ever salted the seas?"

"NELSONSKY," workers. "He was born Omsk."

detective tale about "My father's Inther knew The Case of the Stolen Sulmon him." shouts a very old worker, Tin. It might bring you in a "They were sick in the same few mouldy coppers."

"It might," I said...

"But even if it did, I daresay the Minister of Ealth would take it orf you to buy somebody a wig or a bottle of cough mix- ture."

ship together."

"And the greatest seaman" and discoverer?" asks the teacher.

"DRAKESKY,"

yell

"Every

romance is

When another reporter wanted why he was flying the to know Atlantic when America was full of cutie cats, he said:-

of an electric current.

Your observations on this pro- position would be appreciated:

Yours faithfully.

N. Gubbins.

Dear Sir,

In reply to your undated..Jet- "Lottie, my honey cat, --has- something fresh and sweet and ter, I have to inform you that I innocent about her which cannot could not, in any circumstances, thebe prodooced anywhere on the accept the proposition you have

American continent, unless you put forward. live in Boston, and who the hell father's father knew wants to live there? "So you're much better off him. too," shouts the old "She makes you sittin on your nothink."

"I wouldn't be surprised."

backside

workers.

"My

persons. It was but one of 30 scandal-not even a whisper."

A

C.V.R. THOMPSON REPORTS

The American Scene

new

assistants, were

doin worker. "They were drunk to- tish roses in Jun think of Eng. Without boasting, that I am the 1949 slump. It is just "an jobs at 5s. an hour. lowest pay

.

gether In Finsk."

"I certainly am." "The arder you work the more you pay to the Government."

"Too true." "

"Who wrote 'Hamict'?"

It Was

SHAKESPEARO- VITCH, who was born in Stalin slowest fred."

"It's like the speed of a fleet bein the speed of the ship," said the Sweep, "so don't you worry your fat gettin ahead of anybody else."

"I ain't goin “lo,” I said. "If you sit tight long enough maybe some ord working bloke will ave to buy a wig fer you."

"Maybe."

"And if the Ministry of Eali decides to look after the other end of your body perhaps you'll ave a bit of ginger put into your old flat feet fer nothink. And very nice, too."

"Very nice."

"You'll be able to git round ere in arf the time."

"That's right,"

The skin orf your nose," said the Sweep.

"The skin orf pourn."

"He was n butelier's boy.

My

father's father bought meat from him."

"Who were the first men to fly the Atlantic?"

"ALCOCKOVITCH and

BROWNSKY."

"Great friends of my.

They kept in bleycle shop Vladivostok."

Although 1 can say, I hope

best-known stomach In the with a sauCET of milk on the lawn; of spring in country, and am fully conscious of my duty to the pubile and of winding lance and their stomachs. I feel that I am little of sweet-scented hedgerows and for science. buttercups in the meadows; of

economic hiccup."

Sixty shop NEW YORK. MERICANS have got a laid off one recent week because there were no customers. Unem- term for their played are taking casual navvy,

since 1938. Some are talking darkly of bad times ahead."

the majority, Others, and

there are the breadlines, that the banks are

safe, that new industries aro opening up, that lay-offs are will soon be jobs for everyone: only temporary, and that there.

ugain.

Parbours full of little boats; now too old to be a guinea-pig from Mr A. D. H. Kaplan, au point out that

a village tavern with cellar cool; I would also like to point out of lavender ladies and antima that I am particularly sensitive cassars; of arsenic and old lace, to any instrument being placed "Anyway, she has aswell near the throat, as you may chassis."

This reassuring phrase comes economist employed by Brookings Insitution, a pri- vately financed, non-political research body, which has some authority in the U, S.

NE OF AMERICA'S

Umen

ΠΟΥ

most

the Mr Kaplan translated have

have noticed when we been in the dentist's chair, and whole post-war situation into

famous men is about to be- could not answer

for the con- terms of the nursery for those connot understand talk

come more famous. Dr Alfred sequences if electrodes and wires who

about recessions, levelling-offs, Kinsey, whose report on the way were forced upon me.

and all the other jargon of the American men make love was a Lottle When

informed that

sentation, announces from No doubt this had denied reports ni the

sensitivity is economists.

Berkeley, California, that he has. London parity caused through ill-usage father. romance and had told

Said he: "I think the baby finished interviewing 7,000 WO- which in reporters that "they were just over a long period, for

good friends," Manhattan. Mou you must take full responsibi- (America) has been taking the men for a similar book an them. bottle very fast since the war. Sald he: "They are much more lity. scr.sald:

You cannot keep crowding milk extreme than men. The results. "That is just the hand-out for

into a baby, There is a time of our interviews are astound-

Ing.". the London dopes. If we are

for letting the baby hiccup.

tummy-sche." That is all this is. It is not a

VANITY betrayed a thief in

York. Peter Sclar riano, a 30-year-old ex-convict.,

checks. He dis-.. has sunken covered that by putting two small potators on the inside of his checks he disguised himself perfectly.

"Who discovered. America?"

"CHRISTOPHER COLUM- BUSKI, the great seaman Odessa."

"My father's father's friend. They went to together.

jus!

was

years.

*

In any case, I do not consider of good friends, then Antony and it necessary to give me electric Cleopatra was just good friends. shocks to find out what is go- And so was Dante and his piri ing on down here..

But Mr Kaplan said it might best friend Beatty. And so

If it would be of any help to school Romiet and Julio. And Casanout the scientists of Birmingham, turn into that if forced feeding of Government and the Queen of Sheba. And could write a detailed report of in the form

Baba All

and his Forty Pep our life together for the past 30 controls is attempted, Behind the Curtain The teacher pauses dramall Moila.

cally before he asks the nat "Don't let them give you that understatement stuff English

If they believed it, which, is PROFILE of a typical "hiccup

So he wore the potatoes while ing town-Jackson, Michi- characteristic of all question:-

provide doubtful, it totalitarian Governments "And who invented the steam about just good friends,

medical gan. Population: 60,000, Indus on the job and took them out as "Lottie, my honey cat, is the valuable data for the who have earmarked their engine, the internal-combustion

out of could not bear to look at hin cheering followers as cannon engine, the jet engine? Who moon and the stars and the sun profession on human endurance, tries: Motor parts and railway toon as he had finished. But he

40,000 workers jobless and the cream in my sateer. She and also be an interesting com-shops. There. are 4,500 fodder in a future war to tell taught men how to fly?"

today. hollow cheeks, and so he began is the beginning and the end; mentary on human behaviour.

Bartenders say they have sold wearing his disguise all the time. them a lot of lies about national

claiming the "It was achievements,

our great Father the Alpha and O-de-o-doli, the

nothing but beer since Christ- It took only a week for him to

bo recognised and arrested. Omega and what have you, the things achlevements of all other nations Stalin, who knows al! as their own."

thinks of all things, Invents all solace of my sadness, the light in

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