There is a workman in America who earns as much as a company director. He is Max Quarterman, a thirty-year-old plasterer (泥瓦匠).Max lives in an upper middle-class housing estate. His16are mostly bank managers, business executives, airline pilots and the like, but Max’s seven-bedroom house— 17$80,000—is the largest in the area. 18outside the house are Max’s $7000 sports car and his wife’s Morris Mini. 19is a 150 color TV set and the family’s pride—a circular bath with gold-plated taps. There are also many labor—saving 20and luxury(豪华) furniture.How can a plasterer21all this? The answer, says Max, is hard work. In partnership with another plasterer, Max does contract plastering jobs for a firm. The owner of the firm22them as human machines, the best and quickest in the 23, who can do as much in two days as any two-man team can in two weeks.How do they 24it? Not by working overtime. They work a normal eight-hour day, five days a week. The secret 25in Max’s hod(桶) in which he carries the plaster(石膏) to the site of the job. Max’s is a superhod—it contains double the usual weight of plaster, and Max, a strong fellow, runs when he carries it. More time is thus 26 to get on with the plastering. Besides, 27man wastes time smoking, and they 28 their lunch break to a 29of an hour a day. Now Max earns over $800 a week which is four times the average weekly pay in America today, and if he gets as 30 as $150, it’s a disaster.
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