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...began one of the world's first installment plans to buy machines. By the time Singer died in 1875, his company was a $22-million-a-year business. Commented Publisher Louis Antoine Godey of Lady's Book, America's first fashion magazine: "Next to the plough, [the sewing machine] is perhaps humanity's most blessed instrument...
This move should help out in two ways. Eassay quality should improve and correctors will not be forced to plough through as many pages of garbage as they have in the past. This last point is important...
...this money is in idle balances where it earns two and one half percent--peanuts. Compare this with the monopolistic juicy profits of imperialism. Capital is American foreign oil enterprises earns 25 percent." He explained that Big Business makes profits to plough back so as to make bigger profits to plough back again--"this is the lifeblood, the circulation of capitalism." "Now, there's no place to plough it back. Capitalism has lost much," he said, "and it MUST reach out for what it has lost, or die. Revolution is the obstacle...
...their various fashions, the people of New Mexico had long prayed for rain. They were used to seeing the Rio Grande shrunk to a brookwide trickle, too thick to drink, too thin to plough. They were used to seeing their reservoirs low, their rolling ranges burned brown. Often they were forced to ship their cattle away to greener pastures. Many a sun-scorched New Mexican had said resignedly: "The Lord made the state dry. I guess He wants it that...
American G.I.s were not the only ones to liberate Italy; the British were there too. In his second novel, Briton Alexander Baron (From the City, from the Plough) retells in fresh detail one of World War II fiction's most popular stories: what happens when invading Allied soldiers wash off the grime of battle and go out to meet the enemy's women...