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Show Ink Blot Spelt Ruin for Engineering Firm A big British engineering firm put 'n a bid for building a great bridge for a foreign government The head of the business spent six months In getting out plans. His bid was accepted, accept-ed, the material bought in great quantities, men engaged, and machin ery built. A time limit was set for the commencement com-mencement and finifh of the bridge, and one day the chief was sitting at his desk perfecting his plans and making sure of the smallest details, when he accidentally upset an inkpot and drowned his most important papers pa-pers in a black sea. In a fever of anxiety he tried to reconstruct re-construct li is plans from stray notes. It was impossible, and he then cabled the tor--:.:n government begging for more time. This was refused and the contract repudiated. The loas (jrove the linn into bankruptcy. i |