' ... look at all the remunerative things they won’t do because they’re short of money, my dear roads and canals and Channel Tunnels and harnessing the tides, because my dear there’s no doubt that coal is too obsolete, and gosh you’d think there was enough water in this country to run the universe by electricity ...'

Written in 1929, nearly a century ago, and we're STILL not running the universe by hydroelectricity.

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Yesterday's editing research:
first transatlantic flights by women
Battle(s) of Arras
what colour Cambridge blue actually is
William Joynson-Hicks
selling plater horse races
1920s fad for grafting slices of chimp testicle onto humans to produce testosterone
Sybil Thorndike
19thC Marriage Acts

It's a VERY funny book.

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