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Dimension X - "Vital Factor" (1951) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Wayne Crowder has the engineers, the industrial power, and the
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  Speaker 1: determination to make the first voyage into space. What he
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  Speaker 1: lacks is a way to propel the ship until a
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  Speaker 1: scientist arrives with an anti gravity solution and terms of
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  Speaker 1: his own. From NBC's Dimension X, this is episode forty
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  Speaker 1: four Vital Factor, adapted for radio by Howard Rodman from
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  Speaker 1: Nelson S. Bond's short story. Raymond Edward Johnson, Luis van Ruten,
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  Speaker 1: John McGovern, Guy Repp, Danny Acco, and Martin Wolfson are
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  Speaker 1: featured in the cast. First broadcast August sixteenth, nineteen fifty one.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Adventures in Time and Space told in Tempture, the National
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  Speaker 2: Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of
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  Speaker 2: Astounding science Ficshure bring you Dimension X. I dont get
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  Speaker 2: anywhere on Earth as a man or a woman or
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  Speaker 2: a child who doesn't know the name of Wayne Crowder.
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  Speaker 2: I doubt whether as a human being who hasn't at
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  Speaker 2: one time or another used one of the crowded products,
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  Speaker 2: the can opener of a razor blade of the patent
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  Speaker 2: of Tooth Potter, dispatcher of the Crowder improved slideless fastener
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  Speaker 2: as a fortune in such products, and Wayne Crowder with
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  Speaker 2: a man to squeeze that fortune of any by penny,
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't. And in the magazines would write about
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  Speaker 2: men of business, he was described as a man of
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  Speaker 2: ice and stone, and ink and steel, no warm, and
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  Speaker 2: a heart that pomp blood, not.
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  Speaker 3: Feel human emotion.
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  Speaker 2: But he took some of his money and he built
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  Speaker 2: himself a cowering skyscraper, and he placed his private office.
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  Speaker 4: At the very peak.
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  Speaker 2: And he built a battery of buttons into his desk,
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  Speaker 2: so that when he wanted something, all he ever had
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  Speaker 2: to do was nice a button. And like genies springing
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  Speaker 2: out of the bottle, these proper personnel would come running.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, mister Crowder, Yes sir, right away, mister Crowver. Mister
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  Speaker 4: Crowder wants his engineers at once. Here I are engineer, sir.
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  Speaker 3: All right, close the door and get out now, gentlemen, saiddan, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: I hired you because you're the best engineers I was
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  Speaker 3: able to find. They tell me you can do anything.
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  Speaker 3: They tell me. If there's a scientific fact known in
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  Speaker 3: the world, even if he's discovered six hours ago, you gentlemen,
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  Speaker 3: are up on it. I don't want to put that
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  Speaker 3: to work. Gentlemen, I want you to build me a spaceship.
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  Speaker 5: What a spaceship, sir?
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  Speaker 3: That's right. I decided that I'm going to be the
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  Speaker 3: man who gives space flight to mankind. A question. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't yer, sir.
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  Speaker 5: We can design such a ship. That part's not too hard.
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  Speaker 5: The basic blueprint has been in existence for many years.
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  Speaker 5: The submarine is the model for the shape in the form.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, but we have no way of providing the
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  Speaker 5: motor to power such a ship.
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  Speaker 3: When the ship's ready to fly, there'll be a motor.
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  Speaker 5: Sure. I don't like to contradict you, but you see, scientist,
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  Speaker 5: it's still been searching for a motor power for spaceships
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  Speaker 5: for decades now without success. You will have a ship,
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  Speaker 5: but we can't lift that ship from the Earth's surface.
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  Speaker 5: That is not to the point of free flight at
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  Speaker 5: any rate.
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  Speaker 3: And mister Crowder, you see.
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  Speaker 6: You'll be spending millions of dollars, hundreds of millions, perhaps
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  Speaker 6: for nothing.
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  Speaker 3: What's your name, Phillips, sir, you're fired. Go down to
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  Speaker 3: cashier and draw your pain and get out.
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  Speaker 4: But mister Crowder out.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody who works for me thinks of how much something costs,
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  Speaker 3: we use money. We don't let expense provide a rationalization
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  Speaker 3: for not beginning a project fell up pretty waiting for
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  Speaker 3: get out, gentlemen. Any other comments.
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  Speaker 5: That the ship will be built, of course, mister Crowder,
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  Speaker 5: But the fact still remains, we can't power you.
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  Speaker 3: Design the ship. I'll find the motor for you. Where, sir,
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  Speaker 3: that's a fair question. The answer is I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: but somewhere in the world as a man who does
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  Speaker 3: know the secret. Long before Henry Ford there was Leonardo
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  Speaker 3: da Vinci, and long before him there was Archimedes, and
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  Speaker 3: long before him there was some Stone Age genius who
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  Speaker 3: invented the wheel when the only thing the mob could
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  Speaker 3: conceived was dragging things around their backs. I want that motor,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll root out the man who has the theory
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  Speaker 3: which will let us build it. I'll find him, money
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  Speaker 3: will be available to him, an organization my backing, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll get what we want.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to be plagued with a host of crackpots, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: so it's going to be your job to separate the
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  Speaker 5: wheat from the chat.
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  Speaker 3: But anyone who shows up with a promising idea, no
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  Speaker 3: matter how fantastic, it sounds is going to have a
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  Speaker 3: chance to show what it can do.
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  Speaker 5: How quickly do you want this donec yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Anything you need, well, mister Crowder will need construction yards, sir,
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  Speaker 5: and certain machinery and a great many materials.
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  Speaker 3: Of course a label for send me the bills. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to be bothered with minor details.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, one more thing, sir, Phillips says. We need him, sir.
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  Speaker 5: He's a top man on electronics. He's a vital cog.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want Phillips working for me. That's clear. I
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  Speaker 3: hope who else in the country knows what he does?
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  Speaker 5: Not one in this country. So there's a man in Asia, though,
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  Speaker 5: get him. We've tried before, mister Crowder. He's working on
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  Speaker 5: an important project for his country.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not concerned with the tails, and I get that man.
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  Speaker 3: Pay what he wants, but get him.
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  Speaker 5: Tell you you don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: I understand man.
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  Speaker 5: If this man quits his job, that whole project will collapse.
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  Speaker 5: It means the welfare of many people, millions of people
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  Speaker 5: in his country. And he has a high sense of patriotism.
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  Speaker 3: Why that sense of patriots Now, that's all I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to see you again until you have a report
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  Speaker 3: of work in progress. Yes, as a man named Philip's
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  Speaker 3: going to draw his pay, I want two company policemen
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  Speaker 3: to meet him at the cashier's office and escored him
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  Speaker 3: from there, directly off the premises. And I want them
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  Speaker 3: to be emphatic about it, and notify the newspapers, the
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  Speaker 3: television and the radio networks, periodicals and the scientific journals
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  Speaker 3: that I'll receive the press in my office afternoon at
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  Speaker 3: three point thirty. I have an important announcement to make.
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  Speaker 3: Gen gentlemen. You can finish your drinks later. Gentlemen of
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  Speaker 3: the press and ladies, it's my pleasure to be able
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  Speaker 3: to tell you that I'm in the process of constructing
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  Speaker 3: a spaceship. Any questions. Did you say a spaceship. That's right,
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  Speaker 3: that's what I thought you said. I knew the drinks weren't.
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  Speaker 3: That's strong. I expected it might be something of a
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  Speaker 3: shock to you, mister Crowder.
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  Speaker 6: Is this spaceship under construction now? It is well according
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  Speaker 6: to your plans.
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  Speaker 3: Is it intended for.
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  Speaker 6: Interstellar flight or merely for flight between planets?
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  Speaker 3: This is the beginning only, and my intentions are quite moderate.
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  Speaker 3: I expect the ship to be able to pursue a
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  Speaker 3: course between Earth and Mars or between Earth and Venus
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  Speaker 3: before the present any longer trips than I've gotten places
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  Speaker 3: you solved the problem of motive force, then no, I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: But what sort of you mean? You don't have any
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  Speaker 3: means of propulsion for the spaceship. That problem is not
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  Speaker 3: solved as yet will be. That's why I called you
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  Speaker 3: away in this afternoon. I want to announce that I
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  Speaker 3: have one hundred thousand dollars in cash waiting for the
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  Speaker 3: man or a woman who first brings me the basic
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  Speaker 3: idea for such a motor. That's all I have to
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  Speaker 3: say for now. Finish our refreshments, ladies and gentlemen. I'll
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  Speaker 3: let you know from time to time when things.
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  Speaker 6: Go mister crowded, One more question, play, yeah, do you
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  Speaker 6: have a name for the spaceship yet?
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  Speaker 3: No? Not? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Then let me suggest one. Yeah, Crowder's folly. What is
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  Speaker 6: your paper, Daily Time?
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  Speaker 3: Sir? And form the company police that, under no circumstances
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  Speaker 3: is any representative for the Daily Times ever to be
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  Speaker 3: allowed on company property. Again.
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  Speaker 6: Wayne Crowder is offering one hundred thousand dollars to any
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  Speaker 6: inventives can produce an engine capable of driving a spaceship.
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  Speaker 3: Wain Plowder is offering one hundred.
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  Speaker 6: Thousand doll ups to any velpie who can't produce an
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  Speaker 6: engine capable of driving a spaceship.
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  Speaker 2: It was Crowder's folly, but the word of what he
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  Speaker 2: wanted circulated to the far corners of the globe, and
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  Speaker 2: it was known in the white ice block ups of
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  Speaker 2: the Eskimos and in the grass based villages of Central
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  Speaker 2: Africa as well as place is less remote, and the
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  Speaker 2: crowded office became a mecca and the heaven for the
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  Speaker 2: lunatic fringe of humanity. Their blueprints and scale models clogged
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  Speaker 2: its corridors, and more applicants came to the great skyscraper.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I told you it a'll want these people in
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  Speaker 3: my offical. The screen got get out. Every time I
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  Speaker 3: opened that door, they surge in like a tidal wave.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't trugged support for you, sir.
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  Speaker 4: On the construction of the ship youry.
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  Speaker 5: I've spent thirteen million dollars for the yards, the equipment,
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  Speaker 5: including three gantry cranes, several dozen presses, thousands of guys
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  Speaker 5: and sofi. We had twelve thousand people working for us directly,
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  Speaker 5: not including subcontractors.
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  Speaker 3: And there lay before.
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  Speaker 5: What about the ship, mister Crowder. The ship is finished
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  Speaker 5: as far as we can go. Certain additional construction can
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  Speaker 5: be done now because it depends on a shape and
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  Speaker 5: the mass of the engine, and a type of fuel
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  Speaker 5: on the weight of that fuel.
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  Speaker 3: I see, all right, lay off everybody we don need.
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  Speaker 3: I voted.
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  Speaker 4: That's a miss crowded.
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  Speaker 5: Is it possible that no one will turn up with
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  Speaker 5: a motor?
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  Speaker 3: That's the one thing that's not possible. He will come
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  Speaker 3: money and determination will buy anything. Because the door anyway,
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  Speaker 3: Uh yes, it all of the property up. And to
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  Speaker 3: put a name on the forward end of the ship,
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  Speaker 3: I want letters in pure gold one foot high. The
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  Speaker 3: name of the ship is Crowder's folly. Get it done
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  Speaker 3: to day.
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  Speaker 2: The sun rose in the morning and glinted rose on
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  Speaker 2: the silver sheen of the hollow ship's skin. The sun
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  Speaker 2: set at night and grinted rose on the silver sheen
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  Speaker 2: of the hollow ship's skin. The golden letters on the
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  Speaker 2: proud hold out a fury of Crowder for the world
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  Speaker 2: to see. A start of fifty was employed as time
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  Speaker 2: went on in taking rust preventive measures to ensure the
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  Speaker 2: ship's well being. In a year, the first experiment seemed
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  Speaker 2: ready to bear fruit, and a test was held the
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  Speaker 2: atomic fish and motor.
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  Speaker 5: In exactly forty five seconds. Now we hold the test,
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  Speaker 5: Miss Crowder. The actual the motor is taking place three
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  Speaker 5: miles from here. Now, this dial here registers the nucleonic activity,
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  Speaker 5: and this dial right here is trust.
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  Speaker 3: Over here. This dial is.
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  Speaker 5: A measure of the effectiveness of the shielding in terms
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  Speaker 5: of outside radioactivity. That sound you hear is our generators
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  Speaker 5: right here building up power to supply the motor by
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  Speaker 5: remote control. Now, if this needle goes around to the
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  Speaker 5: park of the dial marked in red, there will be
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  Speaker 5: an explosion.
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  Speaker 3: Are there any questions? There's eight with attat.
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  Speaker 5: Watch the needlesi eight thousand, eighty five hundred, nine thousand,
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  Speaker 5: ten eleven, twelve fifteen. That's an overload doll side twenty.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how much Hice and census.
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  Speaker 3: What happened? Your generator blew out?
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  Speaker 5: What kind of I take Your partners of the motor
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  Speaker 5: blew up?
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  Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 5: I'd hear tom, You see, sir, It takes a while
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  Speaker 5: for the vibration is an explosion to travel three miles
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  Speaker 5: and then reach through fifteen feet of concrete.
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  Speaker 3: See well, other experiments in progress, let me know, and
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  Speaker 3: they're ready protesting.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, mister Crowder, the inventor of that motor had
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  Speaker 5: to be with it, of course during the tests. But
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  Speaker 5: he has that is, he had a family.
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  Speaker 3: The fool know what he was doing. He understood the danger.
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  Speaker 3: I'll line up those experiments and don't turn anyone away
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  Speaker 3: if you seems to have the remotest possibility of success.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm telling you my man will come. Money and
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: determination will buy anything.
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  Speaker 2: And strangely enough, Crowder was right, because one day there
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  Speaker 2: came to his office a stranger, a small man. He
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  Speaker 2: looked even smaller in that tremendous room. He was an
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  Speaker 2: unusual visitor, and that he carried no briefcase, fat with blueprints,
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  Speaker 2: schematics or formerly. He was unusual in that he neither blustered.
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  Speaker 7: Coward nor deferred to his host.
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  Speaker 2: Or He was a pleasant little stranger bird, life of
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  Speaker 2: eye and movement, bright.
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  Speaker 7: And smiling.
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  Speaker 3: Powder.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Wilkins.
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  Speaker 4: I can power that ship you want, So of course
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  Speaker 4: what I have in mind will be anything like that,
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  Speaker 4: mean less anything like that meaningless for you. Flick, we'll
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  Speaker 4: rock My motor requires a difference here in my.
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  Speaker 3: Head, it so happens that I am presently opens, that
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  Speaker 3: I am presently supporting. Half a dozen people will make
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  Speaker 3: this a none of them been successful. What makes you
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  Speaker 3: think your idea will work?
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  Speaker 4: Simple enough? The common magnet? What electromagnetism? Utilization of the
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  Speaker 4: force of gravity or its opposite, in this case countergraphty.
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  Speaker 3: You're very much if you'll forgive me.
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  Speaker 4: Now, mister crowd, there's one thing more this.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen pieces of metal before.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you?
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  Speaker 4: How high from your desk would you say I'm holding it?
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  Speaker 3: I'm very sorry, mister Wilkins. Do you want to leave
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  Speaker 3: or do you want to be escorted out?
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  Speaker 4: This will only take a second. Say how high from
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  Speaker 4: your desk would you say? I'm holding this piece of metal?
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  Speaker 4: And if I let go, then in less than a
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  Speaker 4: second affraction of a second it should fall to you.
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  Speaker 3: Now, look, I don't want the surface of that death mind,
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  Speaker 3: But will it be?
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  Speaker 2: You?
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  Speaker 4: See? I have let go of the metal?
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  Speaker 3: Is that right?
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  Speaker 7: What good?
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  Speaker 3: Long?
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  Speaker 4: Many seconds ago it should have crashed to the desk?
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  Speaker 4: Am I right?
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  Speaker 3: This is.
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  Speaker 4: Well? If you want to speak to me anymore. I'll
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  Speaker 4: be right outside.
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  Speaker 3: But it hasn't fallen.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, sir, It hasn't fallen. Fluots, that's right, sir.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do it? Why don't you call your
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  Speaker 4: engineers and ask them. I'll wait outside, got me my
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  Speaker 4: engineers immediately?
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  Speaker 3: Oh right, mister Wilkins, yirre quite right. This piece of
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  Speaker 3: metal is appandlic counter gravity here. My engineers can give
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  Speaker 3: me no explanation.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want?
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  Speaker 4: I want to build a spaceship using this material and
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  Speaker 4: to great expended. You're hundreds of the cost you be here,
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  Speaker 4: a city out there in your building yard, and three
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  Speaker 4: other things workshop expert, mechanical assistance, and an answer to
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  Speaker 4: one question.
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  Speaker 3: What is the question?
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  Speaker 4: Why do you want so much to build this ship?
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  Speaker 3: Frankly, because I love power, because I'm ambitious. I want
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  Speaker 3: to be the master not only of one world, but
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  Speaker 3: of worlds.
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  Speaker 4: That's an honest answer. And that's as far as you're
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  Speaker 4: thinking goes.
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  Speaker 3: What else is there?
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  Speaker 4: But there's my answer. I want to leave this planet
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  Speaker 4: and go to Mars because there are strange wonders there,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: because there will be scarlet sunsets, over balanced wastes, and
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: in the starstrewn night, the thin cold air of a
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  Speaker 4: dying world stirring in restless size across the valleys of
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  Speaker 4: the dragonnells. He may laugh out loud if you wish,
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  Speaker 4: mister Crowtery, I prefer that to the peculiar, repressed smile
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  Speaker 4: you're exhibiting.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 3: You're a very lucky man, mister Wilkin's scientific talent, because
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: your talents, is a poet, are inferior and very sentimental. Well,
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  Speaker 3: all right, you're sentimental, isn't I'm man logic. No matter.
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  Speaker 3: We can work together, you and I. Your workshop will
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  Speaker 3: be ready by morning. If you need money on material
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  Speaker 3: as a personnel, just tell my engineers and you'll get it,
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  Speaker 3: or I'll know the reason why. And that's all, thank you, sir,
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  Speaker 3: Get me my engineers. Yes, mister crowd, we have fifty
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  Speaker 3: men working on preserving that useless hulk out there in
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: the construction yard. Laid them off. Now, how many others?
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  Speaker 5: But the ship will deteriorate if we do that.
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  Speaker 4: Sir, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: How many other employees are still working for us on
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  Speaker 3: the project.
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  Speaker 5: About three thousands, including the people working on experimental motives.
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  Speaker 3: Get real them, but rid of them.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Crowder, I never thought you'd drop this project. You
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  Speaker 5: were so adamant on it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not dropping anything but dead. Would you saw what
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  Speaker 3: Wilkins had to offer. He's my man and the rest
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  Speaker 3: is young.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Crowder, he might fail. We ought to have a
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  Speaker 5: minimum of protection together.
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  Speaker 3: I say, he won't fail. You'll just let everybody off
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  Speaker 3: that is needed. Give him two weeks paying my thanks
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  Speaker 3: for a thankless job well done. That's all, Yes, sir, I'll.
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  Speaker 5: Get it, John Sir.
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  Speaker 3: Forty years work, yes, and ten years or twenty years
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  Speaker 3: and I do the same thing. That's why you're an
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: engineer and I'm an executive. That's why you work for me,
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  Speaker 3: because when I have to, I can be ruthless with
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: my own miss stakes. What are you waiting for?
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  Speaker 5: I was just thinking, mister Crowder, what would happen to
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: me if my usefulness to you were over? I've worked
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  Speaker 5: for you for thirty years now.
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  Speaker 3: Just don't give me any occasion to consider your usefulness terminator.
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  Speaker 3: That ouldn't be too word.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but nothing, sir. I'll make the arrangements at once.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you what do you want?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I tried to stop himself.
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  Speaker 6: Well, speak up, man, my name is your resistry. I
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: am an electronic sex.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, I remember you're the Asian. Well, come in,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: come in? Do you want me?
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  Speaker 5: There?
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  Speaker 3: Never mine and mine? Just stay outside closed the door
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  Speaker 3: behind him. Yes, sit down, Tom, thank you. No, I
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  Speaker 3: want to give you a gift before I leave. Oh
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: h you leaving? I thought we still needed you. I resigned. Well,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to hear that. I'm told you're a good man.
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  Speaker 6: I want you to understand what's behind this gift. I
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: was working on a power project in my country, which
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: would have meant a tremendous rise in the standard of
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: living for millions of my people. I was unable to
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: resist the money you offered.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Had you resisted even more money, it would have been
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: forthcoming up placed no limit on your worth to me.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: I understand.
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  Speaker 6: But you see I did not come without a sense
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: of guilt because there was no one in my country
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: who could take my place.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I would assume, man.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: And now I discovered that what I did was for nothing.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: The spaceship on which I work is being dispensed.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: So I have been corrupted by you at a whim.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: I think you have too much power, sir. I think
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: you use your power for evil, selfish purpose selfish.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Yet only sentimentality is evil.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: I think otherwise, and so in order that you shall
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: not corrupt anyone else, I have this gift for you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Here you are, sir, and just one more shot for good,
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: measure to make sure you are really dead.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Good. The man on his way out, by the name
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: of Job is ushually an engineer. He's not to be molested.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: He probably won't stop the cashiers, so I want to
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: check for six months hour in advance. Mailed to his
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: arm address, A man showed a certain quality of ruthlessness
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: which is deserving of recognition. And you have the chap
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: of the company police. Bring me a new bulletproof vest.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: This one seems to have been dented in two places.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: A new spaceship, according to Wilkins plans, as executed by
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Crowder's engineers, was finished within four months. It was small,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: It was shaped like a disk. It gleamed brightly even
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: in the smoky haze of an October sunset. Inside Crowder
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and mister Wilkins, in a small cubucle oft the heart
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: of the machine, were surrounded by many instruments of a
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: complicated nature. Outside, huge crowds gathered to witness the test.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: They stirred and murmured, waiting restlessly as inside the control
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: room of the craft, Wilkins installed the final secret part
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: he had not revealed to those who built his driving operations.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Well, Wilkins, what's holding us up?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Nothing now or the sentiment? Perhaps? But I wish to
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: look once more on familiar scenes here. Now the screening
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: is removed. Look look at the people out there.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Never mind looking out there, Let's leave that thing closed.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: You're a sentimental food. Are you afraid? Or did you
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: decided that last minute that your invention won't work?
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: It will work? Oh, sit down, this crowdy, do me
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: a favor when I press this button? Will you please
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: press the button on the arm of the chair you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: seated on. I'll tell you when turn.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: On your motor, I want to hear its roar and
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: feel its tug as we got loose from her its
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: gravity and fly outward into space. That might be a
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: moment in which I share your sentimentality.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Pressure button, el, sir, Thank you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: This is all hawks. I'm beginning to distrust you, Wilkins.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: When are we're going to take off? You said at
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: five shop, and it's two minutes after five.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: Now, well do we move?
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Don't way, it's crowd. We're already moving. The button you
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: pushed was to nullify the effects of acceleration. That if
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: you don't mind, I'd like to open the screen again.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Now if you care to look for.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Yourself, Welkins, we're in space. Look down at Earth. How
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: far we've come.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: It's no bigger in toy boon.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: A time a firefly moon man. Wilkins, you've done it. Yes,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I swore to be the first man of Cocas Bait,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: and I've done it. Triumph of power and ambition and
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: sentinel blast centerment. Your model and dreaming would have died
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: on Borne Except for me. I made this possible, Welcons,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: don't ever forget that. My capital, my forcefulness, my will.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Look out there space stars that never were seen from there.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: But this is only the beginning.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: We will build a large amounto one great enough to
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: hold a hundred man of thousand in cargo. Besides, I'm
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: the master of the planets. Wilkins. Turn back now, No
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: what I said, turn back? No, We've proved the ship
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: can fly in our turnback. I'm going to start working
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: once in preparation for the long flight to come, so
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: we will go on. What are you doing to find me?
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Are you crazy? I'll break your puny little body in
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: the piece.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Mister Caro, Can you control this ship? Would you like
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: to be stratted out here in space? Just a drift
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: in space without control? Would you like that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Turn back?
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: No, you're crazy, You're crazy crazy?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Sentimental Yes, your money and ambition paved the way, that's true,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: but the sentiment was the vital factor that sent me
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: to you. You'll forgive me if I remove these primitive clothes?
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Oh are you?
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Is it all right? Mister Crowder? There is no need
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: to be so terrified because you've had your first close
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: look at a Martian going home?
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: You heard another adventure into the unknown world of the future.
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: The world of a private detective.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Receives many strange assignments, but none has ever received one
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: quite like that given to the investigator we're going to
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: tell you about next week as he bring you From
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the pages of a September issue of Astounding Science Fiction,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: untitled Story.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: Dimension X is presented each week by the National Broadcasting
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: Company in.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of the magazine Astounding
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Science Fiction.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Today, dimension X has presented The.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: Vital Factor, written for radio by Howard Rotman from the
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: story by Nelson Bond, featured in the ca Asked, where
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: Raymond Edward Johnson as crowd, John McGovern as the engineer,
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: and Looy Van Rutten as the Martian. Your host was
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Norman Rose. Music by Albert Burman. Dimension X is produced
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: by William Welch and directed by.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Fred Way Dragnet. The story of Your Police Force is
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: next on NBC.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Dimension X has brought us Vital Factor. Good night and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining us at the radio dial.