Commercial Candour
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"They were manufacturers of aeroplanes—in their opinion the best aeroplanes in the world and the most suited for commercial lying."—Provincial Paper.
"A hospital nurse interrupted evidence given in Portuguese at Thames Police Court on Saturday."—Provincial Paper.
Very rude of her.
"An experimental air service for Army mails only was begun a few days ago between Folkestone and Boulogne, with intermediate points in Belgium, said Mr. Illingworth, Postmaster-General."—Daily Chronicle.
"We are a long way yet from the mastery of the air. Out of fifteen days the Prime Minister's Paris postbag, which it had been arranged should be sent 'via aloft,' had to go by the old land and water route in fourteen days."—Daily Mirror.
Even that, we suppose, was quicker than to send it by the circuitous air-route viâ Belgium.