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...order to get sub sequently ten dollars in return by exploiting the peoples who accept such aid ... How is the 'magnanimity' of the U.S. explained when it gives arms free to European countries, including Western Germany which is a highly developed country itself? It is to rivet with a golden chain not only the undeveloped but also the highly developed countries...
...moving forward. In and around the cities, bulldozers, pneumatic drills and rivet guns played an unending symphony of progress on new homes, new factories, new office buildings. The "for gotten man" of New Deal days was ven turing his capital in small businesses -millinery shops, hamburger stands, ma chine shops. In labor-union meetings, most of the talk centered on how to get new benefits, not on how to keep up with a runaway cost of living. At the office coffee breaks, the talk was easy and calm, not about the coming war or the coming depression. Moderation...
From then on it was easy. The editors followed the rivet lines on the photographs, figured out where the bulkheads went. From gun mounts plainly showing in the pictures, they positioned the ammunition magazines. From all these structural details Aireview worked out the plane's specifications...
...Belgians taught the Bantu to run bulldozers, looms and furnaces, to rivet ships, drive taxis and trucks. Girls with grotesque tribal markings etched into their ebony foreheads sell in shops, teach in schools, nurse in hospitals. Already thousands of natives in the Congo's bustling cities earn $100-$150 a month -more than most workers in Europe, and small fortunes by African standards. They buy sewing machines, phonographs and bicycles in such profusion that Sears, Roebuck has recently put out a special Congo catalogue...
Like sidewalk superintendents, jazz fans like to watch and listen to a clicking combo even if they know little about what is actually going on. The least among the initiates can watch a hot lick go sailing from one performer to another like a hot rivet, and appreciate the way it gets deftly caught and driven home before it combo. When such a flurry of faster and faster tosses is completed without disaster, the jazz fan has a tendency to laugh his appreciation out loud...