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1944
1944 - 1987.PDF
SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1944 FLIGHT ?N Advertise / 33 * y Li- \ Time flies backwards! ±\_ man we know has worked out by means of a slide-rule and a bit of snooping that 351,439 man-hours were lost to industry on Feb ruary 17th, 1944, by drilling holes with hand drills instead of Desoutter power drills. He says that the result of this immense loss of time was that when the workers came to work next day it was really February 18th, 1903. After a bit of a pause while our eyes stopped rolling, we said we thought there was a catch in it. We said wouldn't it be February 18th, 1985. Like British Summer Time, first you put it on and then you take it off. He said, no, it was 1903 like he said and what a terrible waste of time. He said the British were always getting ready for the previous war and this proved it. Well, we wouldn't stand for that so we slung him out and his slide-rule after him. But it's a shaking sort of a thought, isn't it; And nothing you can do about it because Desoutter Tools weren't invented in 1903. Specialists in Lightweight Pneumatic and Electric Portable Tools fiESOUTTER BROS. LTD., DEPT. B THE HYDE, HENDON, LONDON, N.W.9. DESOUTTER TELEPHONE: COL/NDALE 6346-7-8-9 C. R. C. 146
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