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...me and try to get food for the newborn baby and herself. Germany was defeated, crushed to the ground, bombed, and the Allies had dismantled all major industrial factory equipment and shipped it abroad for others' use. Germany's infrastructure had been destroyed by British and American bombing and by fighting on the ground. Twelve months after the end of the war in Europe, ...

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... the bodies were deflating like tires. He wanted to sit at one of the red metallic tables on a plastic stool among a group of saffron robed monks, wi... ...es into plastic bags sealed with rubber bands or put the plates of food on metallic tables. So many city residents (all of whom lived in apartments) d... ... faces in the familiar space: an area no different than a garage with some metallic tables and chairs in the center and woks, burners, a refrigerator,... ...e fruition of love. He could see himself pouring ice and water into small metallic cups and bringing them to the customers on the sidewalk or making ... ...earing?" Jatupon imagined the money collector clicking the lid of his metallic cylinder while shoving through the people. At times he would sit o... ...in his opened shirt like an oil worker ciphering the ground. He shoved the industrial exploiter away. He felt awe in how complex it all was: one thin...

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...irst world war, in 1917, the US War Industries Board called on women to stop buying metal-rich corsets. Some 28,000 tons of metals were thus made av... ...sented three fifths of all United States exports in 1860. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, supported free trade. Northerne... ... Guillotin and German engineer and harpsichord maker, Tobias Schmidt, improved and industrialized it. It was Schmidt who transformed the blade, cha... ... Communism" (1917- 1921), the militarization of the economy. Between 1916 and 1920, industrial output plunged by more than four fifths. Grain harves... ...1870-1924) introduced the New Economic Policy (NEP). Trade was liberalized, as were industrial and agricultural production. Peasants were allowed to... ...ovico Sforza, was used for target practice by invading French soldiers in 1499. The metal which was supposed to go into this work of art was molded ...

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...e stench of aging urine. A river of human flotsam, its moldy delta the elongated metal sinks. We push and shove to wash at least the moldering ti... ...never wavers or flounders or gets flustered, Himmler. He reminds me of a Fritz Lang industrial robot. “May 1933, Herr Reichsfuehrer, I am certain ... ...at must have been a horrified expression on my face, she busily flicked a series of metal switches next to her chair and the fans overhead came to l... ...his goes on for many hours, well into the night. I think I heard sporadic gunshots. Metallic cell doors squeak open and clang shut. The bare bulb in ... ... dead people and gory atrocities adorned the walls, interlaced with pipes and other metal structures. Nazi symbols and paraphernalia blighted the su... ...nt three years together, before and after her divorce from her husband, Quandt, the industrialist. Later, she had a large apartment in Reichskanzler... ...wind. An exit. I am unceremoniously shoved onto the floor of a car, bumping into metal handles and doorframes in the process. “Sorry about tha...

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...f the Universe is preordained to accommodate sentient beings - namely, us humans. Industrialists, politicians and economists have only recently be... ...e led to derisory attempts to reverse the inexorable processes of urbanization and industrialization by introducing localized, small-scale producti... ... improving on many fronts, showed Lomborg: known reserves of fossil fuels and most metals are rising, agricultural production per head is surging, ... ...of every transformation and transition in human history have been steep (recall the Industrial Revolution and, more recently, the transition from Co...

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... into fuel for engines, oceans and near planets are turned into mining and industrial zones, medicine is turned into “miracle - healing”, etc. This sp... ...ls and roofs, domes and towers, high narrow windows, gates bound with fine metal cover, stairways carved out of cool marble, colonnades engraved with ...

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...e haz, dincolo de prospec ţia individual ă, reinventarea şi implementarea “industrial ă” a unui astfel de sistem? (amintesc, la plesneal ă, de câtev... ...on ştientizare public ă a (non)artisticului]. Îmbin ă materialele diverse (metal, sfoar ă, lemn etc.). Rauschenberg, de pild ă, combina chiar pictura...

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...n, easily thumbed off the safety. He stared up, watching for movement. The metal of the van creaked with the weight on the roof. Once more, the van ... ...Midnight Gerard had a smile on his face as he parked the van at the Zaffil Industrial Park gates. The park had gone out of business six years earlier... ...tor J. D. Hollyfield is an artist in many mediums including wood, leather, metal, paint, and graphic design. He currently resides in the mountains of...

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...d his primordially haphazard agriculture into a ritual, he added first one metal to his resources and then another, until he had copper and tin and ir... ... of the sort. They were not yet beginning to think of seeing things; their metallurgy was all too poor to make such engines even had they thought of t... ...ay and crackled insinuat- ingly whenever he stroked her fur. It rotted his metals when he put them together…. There is no single record that any one q... ...t Holsten-Roberts engine brought induced radio-activity into the sphere of industrial produc- tion, and its first general use was to replace the steam... ...pon the heels of this, and by the autumn of 1954 a gigantic replacement of industrial methods and machinery was in progress all about the habitable gl... ...t the world for four awful de- cades were swept away to the dealers in old metal, and the highways thronged with light and clean and shimmering shapes... ...o the sky. And with an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous premi- ums for priority in the de... ...aerial park in this region, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industrial plant of the lower Rhine, and a flanking raid through Holland up... ...ement of population upon more wholesome lines, shaken the world. The great industrial regions and the large cities that had es- caped the bombs were, ...

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...struttings and valiant dreamings with a helmet of paste- board and a white-metal sword. We have most of us been at least as far as that with Benham. A... ... gaunt regions of reeking toil. As yet he knew nothing of the realities of industrialism. He saw only the beauty of the great chimneys that rose again... ...t to a shabby conspiracy of the British and their colonies against foreign industrialism. They were violent for armaments and hostile to education. Th... ...dn’t wor- ship our ancestors when it came to building bridges or work- ing metals or curing disease or studying our indigestion, and why should we bec... ...drawer full of papers labelled “Politics,” White found a paper called “The Metal Beast.” It showed that for a time Benham had been greatly obsessed by... ... after that, with the convic- tion that headless, soulless, blood-drinking metal monsters were breeding all about me. I felt that science was producin... ...of life. It is a conspiracy of the lifeless, an enormous plot of the rebel metals against sensa- tion. That is why in particular half-living people se... ...al circumstances. Most people born to wealth and ease take the established industrial system as the natural method in human affairs; it is only very r... ...t collective action, and those whose part it is to be the rank and file in industrialism. This, I know, is a limitation upon my confidence due very la...

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...ulled the gear lever over from the first speed to the reverse. There was a metallic clangour beneath the two gentlemen, and the car slowed down and st... ...ums, vivid green lawns, gay awnings, bright glass, white paint and shining metal set the tone of Maidenhead life. At lunch there had been five or six ... ... essentially unselfish. Manifestly there were many things that an ordinary industrial or political magnate would do that Sir Richmond would not dream ... ...to use to some supreme end or to waste in trivialities. Coal is the key to metallurgy and oil to transit. When they are done we shall either have buil... ...ee cups cried out upon the tray; “was given to men to give them power over metals, to get knowledge with, to get more power with.” “The oil story, I s... ...ight pres- ently worry out some picture of this forgotten world, with- out metals, without beasts of burthen, without letters, with- out any sculpture...

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...s people were beginning to use coal in smelt- ing iron, and were producing metal in abundance and metal castings in sizes that had hitherto been unatt... ...ll our descendants cherish? It is hard to estimate what grains of precious metal may not be found in a mud torrent of human production on so large a s... ...d about and saw Bursley Wakes and much of the hu- man aspects of organised industrialism at close quarters for the first time. The picture of a splend... ...war, muddle that gives us the visibly sprawling disorder of our cities and industrial country-side, muddle that gives us the waste of life, the limita... ...rmed a very vivid memory of her. She was in the sharpest contrast with the industrial world about her; she impressed me as a dainty blue flower might ... ...and copses and flowers. But always I went eastward, where in a long valley industrialism smokes and sprawls. That was the stuff to which I turned by n... ...frican negro. There are hordes of such men as he throughout all the modern industrial world. You will find the same type with the slightest modificati... ...- ling always, and the Baileys, it seemed to me, loved a world as flat and metallic as Sidney Cooper’s cows. If they had the universe in hand I know t... ... the Kinghamstead Division is extensive, abounding in ill-graded and badly metalled cross-roads and vicious little hills, and singularly unpleasing to...

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...(Mr. Lincoln then read a number of extracts which had the ring of the true metal. W e have rarely heard anything with which we have been more pleased.... ...have been brought to my notice, he alone has the true, genuine ring of the metal. And now, without indorsing anything else he has said, I will ask thi... ... an adjustment of these imposts as will encourage the de- velopment of the industrial interest of the whole country; and we commend that policy of nat... ... intends to pursue toward the seceded States is extremely injurious to the industrial and commercial interests of the country, tends to keep up an exc... ... the United States may justly pride them- selves upon their proficiency in industrial arts, it is desirable that they should have proper facilities to... ...ic exigencies. Much of the national loan has been taken by citizens of the industrial classes, whose confidence in their country’s faith and zeal for ... ...esident to take measures for facilitating a proper rep- resentation of the industrial interests of the United States at the exhibition of the industry...

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...leep. CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII THE INDUSTRIAL MA THE INDUSTRIAL MA THE INDUSTRIAL MA THE INDUSTRIAL MA THE IND... ...hildhood, Gerald had paid no heed to this. He had ignored the whole of the industrial sea which surged in coal-blackened tides against the grounds of ... ...ousness. And now he saw them with pride. Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. He saw the stream of ... ...erground; then the instruments of its sub- jugation, instruments human and metallic; and finally his own pure will, his own mind. It would need a marv... ...t would need a marvellous adjustment of myriad instruments, human, animal, metal- lic, kinetic, dynamic, a marvellous casting of myriad tiny 225 whol... ...ess, then,’ said Birkin; ‘especially as it only means a sort of commercial-industrial consciousness. I hate Italy 296 and her national rant. And I th... ...elt she could consume herself and know all, by means of this fatal, living metal. She smiled to herself at her fancy. And what would she do with herse... ...terably soft and silken. He felt strong as winter, his hands were liv- ing metal, invincible and not to be turned aside. His heart rang like a bell cl... ...tual world, should be set to solve the problems of the day, the problem of industrialism in the mod- ern world. She knew he would, in the course of ti...

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...have found one. Well, now, how about terms? Financial terms, that is. Base metal!” Nejdanov did not know what to say. “I think,” Sipiagin went on, ben... ..., “but I can tell you one thing. I doubt if the aristocracy is cut out for industrial enterprises.” “Do you consider it degrading for the aristocracy?... ...nes. I hinted at that just now, but it seemed to offend you. I had regular industrial enterprises in my mind when I spoke; I say regu- lar, because fo... ...erent position; but now, after all the ben- eficial reforms in our present industrial age, why should not the nobility turn their attention and bring ... ...g a bell, shaped like a mushroom, he filled the whole house with its clear metal- lic ring. “I am extremely grateful to you,” he repeated more sharply...

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...l Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. The towel- rack was a rod of clear glass set in nick... ... to-day it seemed flat—the tiled floor, like a bathroom, the ocher-colored metal ceiling, the faded maps on the hard plaster walls, the chairs of varn... ...where tough nuts can raise cain. Keeps ‘em away from our own homes.” As to industrial conditions, however, Babbitt had thought a great deal, and his o... ... his sym- bols of truth and beauty. Regarding each new intricate mechanism—metal lathe, two-jet carburetor, machine gun, oxyacetylene welder—he learne... ...t have if he plays the game, and you stick right to ‘em. But the poetry of industrialism, now there’s a literary line where you got to open up new ter... ...he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal industries. As he comes from Nottingham, a favorite haunt of Robin Ho... ...his poetic and sociologic ardor, trumpeted: “During the untoward series of industrial dislocations which have—let us be courageous and admit it boldly... .... 271 Sinclair Lewis “What is not generally understood is that this whole industrial matter isn’t a question of economics. It’s es- sentially and onl...

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...on a sun-faded crepe blouse. Sam Clark’s Hardware Store. An air of frankly metallic enterprise. Guns and churns and barrels of nails and beau- tiful s... ...scarlet geraniums; the prairie breeze was sunshine in motion; the flashing metal blades of the windmill revolved with a lively hum; a horse neighed, a... ...bered mists from tropic isles and Paris nights and the walls of Bagdad, of industrial justice and a God who spake not in doggerel hymns. One seed. Whi... ...one black-headed pin and one empty spool, a velvet pin-cushion in a gilded metal slipper with “Souvenir of Troy, N. Y.” stamped on 143 Sinclair Lewis... ...ny-colored and free. She visioned the fire-box: flames turned to lemon and metallic gold as the coal-dust sifted over them; thin twisty flutters of pu... ...e? Oh—no! I believe all of us want the same things—we’re all together, the industrial workers and the women and the farmers and the negro race and the... ...-leaders! De- mocracy is all right theoretically, and I’ll admit there are industrial injustices, but I’d rather have them than see the world reduced ... ...k of a fire-alarm whistle at night, but always at the end it gave a lively metallic clang, and in the stillness she heard the flump of the cut stick f... ... will see and meddle with before she dies in the year 2000! She may see an industrial union of the whole world, she may see aeroplanes going to Mars.”...

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... ver mine can be put to, apart from the sordid pro- cess of extracting the metal from under the ground. The father of Charles Gould, for a long time o... ...ars. He was not running a great enterprise there; no mere railway board or industrial corporation. He was run- ning a man! A success would have please... ...uld; and by her imaginative estimate of its power she endowed that lump of metal with a justificative conception, as though it were not a mere fact, b... ...her husband. He seemed to dwell alone within a circumvallation of precious metal, leaving her outside with her school, her hospital, the sick mothers ... ...mo habit of using on the wharf (this man seems to dis- dain the use of any metal less precious than silver) and blew into it twice, evidently a precon... ...eds of years. Time is on its side, señor. And silver is an incorrupt- ible metal that can be trusted to keep its value for ever… . An incorruptible me...

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...dio and regularly kow-tow to it, and talk about the ‘decadence of American industrial arts.’ I’ve heard him. I say it’s pure affectation, that’s what ... ...ard, upon a platform, a young man in shirt-sleeves, his cuffs caught up by metal clamps, walked up and down. Screwed to the black-board itself was a t...

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...had better go to her father and mother, and learn knit- ting, or some such industrial employment. “Unless zat man for whom you play fool!—” Mr. Pericl... ...ed to ask what the value of him will be by the time that he turns out pure metal? I reply, something considerable, if by great sacrifice he gets to tr...