Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon

[Alice Faber]

On 3/7/12 3:26 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Not exactly to the point, but nevertheless something that still
> amuses me.  Being in London around the time of Watergate, I saw on
> the street a truck labeled "Nixon Removals".  (What we would call a
> "moving van", of course.)  I was unfortunately without my camera.
>

Was it by Watergate (Lane?), which I happened upon while wandering
around London in the summer of 1973? (And I *did* have my camera!)


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