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Said Publisher J. E. Morpurgo: "America had become Europeanized, and the Europe which she had taken as her model was the Europe of the 19th Century, the Europe of decay. But America had found more efficient means of spreading rottenness than had ever been known to the Europe she copied. America had Hollywood . . . We, in Europe, need to revive the habit of asking questions; Hollywood has taught us to be content with answers...
...sufficiently cut the station's radiation; the Network has little hope of getting a temporary reprieve from the Commission's order; and a commercial license would involve an impossible capital expense. As the months drag on, the Network will lose the advertising revenues it needs to prevent physical decay...
...their ligaments. How were the bodies preserved? The experts disagreed. Some attributed the mummification to the climate, others to some unknown process of embalming, probably of Moorish or perhaps even Egyptian origin. The nuns had a simpler explanation. Said Sister Blanca: "They were all saints. Their bodies could not decay...
...Hollywood, the drinking of bottled water has become a mark of class; only such lowlifes as $1,000-a-week writers drink tap water. Theodora thought that she would have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...
Twenty years ago, Leland Olds, like many another New Dealer, had some radical notions about capitalism. As a reporter for a labor news syndicate, he once wrote: ". . . Capitalism in the United States is rapidly passing into the stage which has marked the decay of many earlier social orders . . . The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people...