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Before the sixth race of the day, which had an entry of six greyhounds, innocent dog players at the track also began to notice that something was up; they found it impossible to get to any of the 31 betting windows. Already ahead of them in line were tough characters...
Price Cutting. Caught in a frenzy for bargains, British retailers slashed prices on a wide range of goods. Some supermarkets cut the price of cigarettes by four pennies, others made a sixpenny cut in chocolates and a one-shilling chop in razor blades. Most appliances were reduced anywhere from 10...
Meanwhile, to keep his chronology straight, Foreman inserts newsreel footage from back home: the Rockettes try out an obstacle course; Shirley Temple marries John Agar; Bess Truman launches a flying ambulance. Cutting back to the action makes for a staccato "new cinema" pace-and for irony, tons and tons of...
Greed & Gouging. Even before men first started haggling in medieval marketplaces, philosophers and scholars have struggled to define fair profit. ACcording to some interpretations, the Calvinists first began to glorify work and profit, and later the Puritans considered it a moral duty for a person to choose the most profitable...
God is in heaven, exact location not defined. His son came to earth in human flesh, preached and worked miracles, by his death redeemed man, and rose again to heaven, where he "sitteth on the right hand of God." So say the Bible and the Christian creeds; but since the...