It . . . yields a staple which requires a very simple and unexacting process to prepare it for market.

The tables, for instance, were to be covered with baize, but when the patron found that baize was expensive he bought instead disused army blankets, smelling incorrigibly of sweat.

...would have the opposite effect entirely, and would tighten the purse-strings of capitalists and the employers of...

Accuracy folks (benchresters, varminters, etc.) lean decidedly towards the Remington. Its tubular design allows it to be chucked in a lathe and hot-rodded very easily.