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There has just arrived at my house a parcel from California containing: 2 Ib. tea, ½ Ib. gelatine, 8 Ib. sugar, 2 Ib. cocoa, i Ib. powdered milk, 3 Ib. dried fruit...
...that prices have tripled. Greatest machine of exploitation has been the North China Development Company (capitalization: $105,000,000), which got control of everything from telegraph offices to coal mines. They ground Chinese cotton farmers so hard that many stopped growing cotton: production fell from 853,120,000 Ib. in 1937 to 173,290,000 two years later...
Last week the cold, still heart of Leon Trotsky was removed from his corpse, weighed, and bottled in alcohol. Weight: 1.13 Ib. A surgeon sawed open the Trotsky skull, cut away the brain envelope, severed the nerves leading to the spinal column, lifted out that once-great brain. Weight: 3-44 Ib...
...hour and forty minutes later, seven days almost to the minute from the time he walked into his peaceful garden to meet his assassin, the last of Leon Trotsky was removed from the furnace and funneled into an urn. His ashes weighed 1.76 Ib...
...babies did not do as well as the mothers. Although many were fine and healthy the average weight (6 Ib. 14 oz.) was below normal. Two were stillborn, three died at birth, four had deformities...