is a poisoning of the people by the monopolists… even the French fries are sold in ready-made cartons.” Embedded in each town was “a more or less well stocked hardware store” and Diesel surmised the shop owner to be “the future millionaire of the town.” He observed many “primitive shops” in these smaller towns that “sell a bit of everything as it becomes available.” He was amused at the American penchant for artifacts of the Old World, noting that some of these primitive shops sold “very old shelf huggers [something put aside, abandoned] of other countries, especially Germany, sometimes for
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