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FRENCHMEN’S GRIEVANCES PARIS, August 25. If Frenchmen have one grievance against foreigners it is this: “ That foreigners are always exploiting inventions which, in the opinion of Frenchmen, belong properly to France. • Tho development by Americans of the cinema, which is held to bo a French discovery, is a case in point. To-day the opic of discussion on the cafe terraces is the “ rail plane,” which is being experimented with near Glasgow. The rail piano is a kind of airship on rails. It has propellers before and behind, and is capable of a speed of 120 milesnn hour. Pictures of the oar on trial in Scotland have appeared in the French Press, and Frenchmen are now assuring one another that the idea of t.lio rail piano was first developed in their_ own country. This morning M. Robert .Bos, councillor for the Val do Grace, reminded his follow councillors that it was seriously proposed a few years ago to establish a rail piano service between Paris, St. Denis, and Enghien,
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Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 11
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170MISSED OPPORTUNITIES Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 11
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