.."
"Jed!" said Babs accusingly.
"There's a fair population there already," said Cochrane,
apologetically. "It won't be long before a local television station will
be logical. I was just thinking, Babs, that after we get bored with
loafing, I could start a program there. Really sound stuff. Not
commercial. And of course with the Dabney field it could be piped back
to Earth if any sponsor wanted it. I think they would ..."
Presently the ship with Babs and Cochrane among its passengers took off
to the stars. It was a perfectly routine flight. After all, star-travel
was almost six months old. It wasn't a novelty any longer.
Operation Outer Space was old stuff.
THE END.
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Transcriber's notes
The following typos have been corrected. Hyphenation adjusted to reflect
the most common usage in the text.
Page Typo Correction
7 expendible expendable
8 calmy calmly
8 Takeoff's Take-off's
9 Takeoff Take-off
10 night-club nightclub
13 business-like businesslike
21 takeoff take-off
25 moonjeep moon-jeep
25 The pyschiatrist The psychiatrist
27 buisinesslike businesslike
33 Appenines Apennines
36 Arcturis Arcturus
37 Why? Why?"
39 tryin trying
40 stockholders stock-holders
41 possiblities possibilities
56 Columbus', Columbus'
57 Three of four Three or four
77 moonrocket moon-rocket
86 epidomologist epidemiologist
89 "Why? "Why?"
91 wrily wryly
93 chlorophyl chlorophyll
95 panic-striken panic-stricken
101 roup croup
109 Cochrone Cochrane
110 behind behind besides
115 wrily wryly
117 'We'd have "We'd have
118 back-ground background
120 sun-light sunlight
120 'We're in a "We're in a
125 virtures virtues
125 normal normal,
129 maintainance maintenance
135 extraterrestrial extra-terrestrial
136 collossus colossus
137 facsimilie facsimile
142 eveywhere everywhere
143 star-ships starships
The following differently hyphenated words have been left as they were,
since there was no clearly predominant usage.
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