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Ulysses

unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in
flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an
incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan
and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible

fowl). A Spanish prisoner’s donation of a distant treasure
of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a solvent
banking corporation loo years previously at 5% compound
interest of the collective worth of 5,000,000 pounds stg
(five million pounds sterling). A contract with an
inconsiderate contractee for the delivery of 32
consignments of some given commodity in consideration
of cash payment on delivery per delivery at the initial rate
of 1/4d to be increased constantly in the geometrical
progression of 2 (1/4d, 1/2d, 1d, 2d, 4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 2s 8d
to 32 terms). A prepared scheme
based on a study of the laws of probability to break the
bank at Monte Carlo. A solution of the secular problem of
the quadrature of the circle, government premium
1,000,000 pounds sterling.
Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?
The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil,
proposed in the prospectus of Agendath Netaim,
Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W. 15, by the cultivation of
orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation.

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