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Bootleggers reap from 200% to 300% on their investment, have bombed judges' homes, killed hostile liquor-law enforcement agents, machine-gunned rivals. One ex-convict named by Mathis supplies a liquor empire in dry counties from nine state-licensed liquor stores in wet areas. In Lubbock, Texas' biggest dry city (pop. 150,000), more than 4,000 bootleggers ply a $15 million annual trade, openly advertise their wares with such slogans as "We Can Satisfy Your Every Need" (the satisfaction costs up to $15 a fifth...
...asserted that competition was light in the "recently developed" field. "If you can survive the early stages of the career, you can reap the rewards...
Although Lionel Trilling's third collection of essay is, in deed, a gathering of fugitive pieces with little collective raison d'etre except the profits which he and the Beacon Press will reap from bringing them to a new audience, nevertheless they display Trilling as a man of letters and a critical influence, perhaps more clearly than any of his previous collections. Even in the pieces which can only be read intelligently when the reader knows the subject matter, the reader discovers a critic of remarkable integrity and perception. In most of the collection, moreover, the subject matter, the reader...
...inescapable fatalism, as not allowing for any real freedom or forgiveness, and as being at the root of the terrible evil of untouchability." Radhakrishnan conceives Karma "as nothing more than the law of cause and effect in the moral world. 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' " Karma, then, merely conditions a man's life rather than determining it, as a card player may play the cards dealt him in a number of ways...
...fields, stream beds, limestone pits and lake bottoms of Mexico, Guatemala and British Honduras, archaeologists continue to reap a rich harvest of the New World's antiquity. There was a time when the artifacts, pottery, votive offerings and idols reclaimed from the soil were handed over to children as playthings or used as targets for Sunday pistol practice. But today archaeologists are alert to seize them as invaluable clues to mysterious, pre-Columbian cultures that send their roots back some 30 centuries. And art lovers now view them as art expressions of rare value...