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If he had only adopted the creed of his time if he had asserted that a God of infinite power and mercy had created millions and billions of human beings to suffer eternal pain, and all for the sake of his glorious justice that he had given his power of attorney to a cunning and cruel Italian pope, authorizing him to save the soul of his mistress and send honest wives to hell if he had given to the nostrils of this God the odor of burning flesh the incense of the fagot if he had filled his ears with the shrieks of the tortured the music of the rack, he would now be known as St.
In the year and a half following the armistice, rents, food, and clothing shot to higher and still higher levels. When the inevitable crash occurred less than two years after the end of the war, business bankruptcies were widespread. Profits were wiped out. Inventory losses amounted to billions of dollars. Farm income dropped by one-half.
It was the Kaiser's opinion that the soil was cultivable. What the land lacked was water and shade. "That we can supply," said Herzl. "It would cost billions, but it will bring in billions too." "Well, you certainly have enough money, more than all of us," said the Kaiser. It was a brief interview. It was vague and seemed to lead nowhere.
These are but few of Edison's inventions, but they are giving employment to over a million people and making the highest use of billions of dollars. "With Mr.
It is certain that before the war began it would not have been thought possible to raise the billions which in four years have been expended on sheer destruction; and one of our saddest reflections today must be of regret that a small portion of these billions which have gone to waste could not have been expended for the very purposes outlined education, public health, the advancement of science and art, public buildings, roads and parks, and the proper housing of populations!
This new "machine species" derives its energy needs from the electricity produced by the billions of human bodies thus preserved. A sophisticated, all-pervasive, computer program called "The Matrix" generates a "world" inhabited by the consciousness of the unfortunate human batteries. Ensconced in their shells, they see themselves walking, talking, working and making love.
If it had been, would the Navy have allowed the A-12 program to fail, would the Air Force be pouring hundreds of millions if not eventually billions of dollars into equipping forty year old B-52s with conventional missiles, or would the Army be maintaining heavy divisions at a personal cost of $60 billion for 35 years of ownership?
With each ensuing year, the spectacle before the American people is the same as it was this Christmas: budget deadlines delayed or missed completely, monstrous continuing resolutions that pack hundreds of billions of dollars worth of spending into one bill, and a Federal Government on the brink of default.
One would express the atomic weights indirectly by means of hydrogen if it were possible to express them absolutely in their adequate measure, that is in real weight, that is in billions or quadrillions of grammes. Under the foregoing conditions, then, society ascribes no value to products.
"Who knows," she cried, her dark eyes sparkling, "she may be an heiress to millions!" "Or a princess of the royal blood!" amended her mother with an enthusiasm that was uncommon. "Blood alone has made this girl what she is. Heaven knows that billions or trillions could not have overcome the influences of a lifetime spent in in Winkletown or is that the name?
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