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<i>On November 1, 1959, the population
of New York City was 8,042,783.</i>
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<i>If you laid them all end to end, figuring
an average height of 5 feet 6½ inches...</i>
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<i>... they would reach from Times Square
to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan.</i>
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<i>I know facts like this because I work for
an insurance company, Consolidated Life.</i>
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<i>We're one of the top five companies
in the country.</i>
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<i>Our home office has 31,259 employees...</i>
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<i>... which is more than the entire population
of, uh... Natchez, Mississippi.</i>
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<i>I work on the 19th floor.
Ordinary Policy Department...</i>
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<i>... Premium Accounting Division,
Section W, desk number 861.</i>
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<i>My name is CC Baxter: C for Calvin, C for
Clifford. But most people call me Bud.</i>
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<i>I've worked here three years, ten months,
and my take-home pay is $94.70 a week.</i>
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<i>The hours in our department
are 8.50 to 5.20.</i>
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<i>They're staggered by floor so 16 elevators
can handle the 31,259 employees...</i>
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<i>... without a serious traffic jam.</i>
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<i>As for myself, I very often stay on at the
office and work for an extra hour or two...</i>
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<i>... especially when the weather is bad.</i>
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<i>It's not that I'm overly ambitious.
It's just a way of killing time...</i>
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<i>... until it's all right for me to go home.</i>
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