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Excerpt: ... specific, whatever it may be! There are forty millions of people in the country. Let me assume for the sake of illustration that each person would have to consume, say, five ounces a day of the elixir. That would be-let me see-five times three hundred and sixty-five is-um-twenty-five-thirty-two-eighteen-eighteen hundred and twenty-five ounces a year: just two ounces over the hundredweight. BURGE. Two million tons a year, in round numbers, of stuff that everyone would clamor for: that men would trample down women and children in the streets to get at. You couldnt produce it. There would be blue murder. It's out of the question. We…
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-59049-5
- EAN: 9781153590495
- Produktnummer: 14787975
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.6 cm 234 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 234
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