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1  "And don't forget the wastes of fraud," put in young Fisher.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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2  No tiniest particle of organic matter was wasted in Durham's.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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3  His muscles were wasting away, and what were left were soft and flabby.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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4  "I have pointed out some of the negative wastes of competition," answered the other.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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5  The party descended to the next floor, where the various waste materials were treated.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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6  He would lie there and cough and cough, day and night, wasting away to a mere skeleton.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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7  Then again, consider the waste of time and energy required to sell these things in a dozen stores, where one would do.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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8  For every one that Jurgis spoke to assured him that it was a waste of time to seek employment for the old man in Packingtown.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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9  It really broke his heart to do this, at half-past twelve o'clock, after he had wasted the night at the meeting and on the street.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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10  And Jurgis looked the fellow squarely in the eye, and so the fellow wasted no time in conventional protests, but read him the deed.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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11  You understand," he said, "that in a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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12  Under the system of rigid economy which the packers enforced, there were some jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste barrels.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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13  There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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14  On top of this were the rooms where they dried the "tankage," the mass of brown stringy stuff that was left after the waste portions of the carcasses had had the lard and tallow dried out of them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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15  "De-vyled" ham was made out of the waste ends of smoked beef that were too small to be sliced by the machines; and also tripe, dyed with chemicals so that it would not show white; and trimmings of hams and corned beef; and potatoes, skins and all; and finally the hard cartilaginous gullets of beef, after the tongues had been cut out.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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16  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
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17  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
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