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==Page 611==
611.33 '''Molotov isn’t telling Vishinsky'''<br />
Echoes the capitalist slogan, "Macy's doesn’t tell Gimbel's," referring to the rival New York department stores.

==Page 615==
615.06 '''Sir Marcus Scammony'''<br />
Scammony refers to the medicinal resins derived from the roots of certain plants, or to the plant itself. The word also suggests "scam," or "trickery," "con job."

615.12-13 '''O-or how about mixing in something that will actually dissolve in the rain?'''<br />
Evokes the 1952 British film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_White_Suit ''The Man in the White Suit''] in which Alec Guinness plays a scientist who invents a suit that won’t soil or wear out. It does, however, dissolve in the rain.

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