“ Don’t give nie such wordy report! when you make them out in future,” said the railway inspector to the lin? overseer. “Just put down the condh tion of the track as you find it. out everything that isn’t to the points I want a business letter, not a novel. * The overseer replied that he grasped the idea.. A few days later the line was badly flooded, and the oversee? wrote his report to the inspector in, the new style. It read; “ .Where thfl railway gas tho river is.H
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Evening Star, Issue 22229, 6 January 1936, Page 6
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