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1  There was only one earth, and the quantity of material things was limited.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
2  The party descended to the next floor, where the various waste materials were treated.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
3  What I outline here is a national, or rather international, system for the providing of the material needs of men.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
4  They used the very flimsiest and cheapest material; they built the houses a dozen at a time, and they cared about nothing at all except the outside shine.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
5  The Lord had used up so much material in the making of his head that there had not been enough to complete his legs; but he got about on the platform, and when he shook his raven whiskers the pillars of capitalism rocked.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
6  Of intellectual and moral things, on the other hand, there was no limit, and one could have more without another's having less; hence "Communism in material production, anarchism in intellectual," was the formula of modern proletarian thought.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
7  It was nearly as bad as the latter, they found in the end, for the plumber charged them seventy-five cents an hour, and seventy-five cents for another man who had stood and watched him, and included all the time the two had been going and coming, and also a charge for all sorts of material and extras.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
8  This dried material they would then grind to a fine powder, and after they had mixed it up well with a mysterious but inoffensive brown rock which they brought in and ground up by the hundreds of carloads for that purpose, the substance was ready to be put into bags and sent out to the world as any one of a hundred different brands of standard bone phosphate.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
9  And then the visitors were taken to the other parts of the building, to see what became of each particle of the waste material that had vanished through the floor; and to the pickling rooms, and the salting rooms, the canning rooms, and the packing rooms, where choice meat was prepared for shipping in refrigerator cars, destined to be eaten in all the four corners of civilization.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
10  A government official has stated that the nation suffers a loss of a billion and a quarter dollars a year through adulterated foods; which means, of course, not only materials wasted that might have been useful outside of the human stomach, but doctors and nurses for people who would otherwise have been well, and undertakers for the whole human race ten or twenty years before the proper time.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31