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Show Bits O' Business And Things To, Come BITS O' BUSINESS Automobile output is still climbing. First - quarter figures topped the comparable 1949 period per-iod by 19 per cent. Last year, incidentally, marked an all-time high for the industry. . . . Tea naradox? Englishmen will be imbibing less tea then their American cousins this summer. With coffee prices up, this country coun-try is now drinking more tea than it used to. Britain, on the other hand, is cutting its 2 Vi ounces-a-week ration to 2 oz. in July. . . . Rising costs may put a damper on swelling home sales, in the opinion of many builders. One solution to the problem: some builders, absorbing absorb-ing cost increases themselves, are pocketing smaller profits. THINGS TO COME A versatile vest-pocket gadget gad-get does everything but fish jour ball out of the lagoon. It serves as a tee and pencil sharpener, sharp-ener, club-furrow cleaner, bottle bot-tle opener, finger-nail cleaner, locker key chain, yardage scale for iron shots, shoe-spike wrench, and screw driver. . . . For toothpaste tooth-paste tube pinchers, there's a novel plastic "roll-up" tool that slips over the tube end, rolls out the paste with a twist of the handle .... The latest thing in ladies' handbags is a brass-fitted "box" model made of antiqued an-tiqued wood. Added feature: when you want a new bag, the old one can be used as a box for cigarettes, plants, etc. . . . Touch-typing tyros will welcome a new plastic guide which keeps fingers channeled to their respective res-pective key groups. It's easily removable when sufficient progress pro-gress has been made, |