Business & Finance: Suspended Animation

The scene is the Manhattan laboratory of Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. The characters are Lawrence V. Burton, Associate Editor of McGraw-Hill's Food Industries, and Harden F. Taylor, Atlantic Coast Fishery's Vice President.

Fishman Taylor (indicating lamb chops in refrigerator): See these lamb chops?

Editor Burton: Yes.

Fishman Taylor: These lamb chops are one year old.

Editor Burton: Indeed.

Fishman Taylor: Now we are going to have them for lunch.

Editor Burton (to himself): Why did

I ever come to this place? Year-old lamb chops!

The chops are cooked, served. Courageous, Editor Burton eats of them. They...

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