 What was the main reason the Masur company failed?
It was a common enough thing among the brothers Masur, as among everybody, to be frustrated in their desires. In three years, more than a million had been made and sold by the Masurs alone, not counting the hundreds of thousands of copies turned out by competitors in every land. The remainder of the brothers Masur, on the other hand, preferred to remain in ignorance. "As I have always said from the beginning," chortled Director Koltan, "this coming of the Earthmen had been a great thing for us, and especially for the House of Masur." The result of the new flood was that in the following year, the sale of Masur ceramic table service dropped to less than a tenth.
 the Earthmen improved and controlled everything on Zur
 Zotul relied on the Earthmen too much  the Earthmen improved and controlled everything on Zur  lack of effort from the brothers  the brothers borrowed too much to every pay it back