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  Speaker 1: At Utah Flats Atomic Plant, manager Mr. Donner must account
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: to his board for an unapproved research expenditure. His report
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: begins with Simon Kane and a set of plans drawn
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: from the Poseidon tablets, ancient Egyptian artifacts whose inscriptions describe
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: a powerful solar energy converter. From that discovery, the work
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: moves beyond the plant laboratory toward a Utah desert flight
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  Speaker 1: test involving a one-man rocket. On October 17th, 1957, NBC
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Radio Network presented episode 116 of X-1, Point of Departure,
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  Speaker 1: adapted by Ernest Kenoy from Vaughn Shelton's galaxy science fiction
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  Speaker 1: story and directed by George Votsis. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is Walter O'Keefe inviting you to listen in on
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  Speaker 2: the Nightline. Tonight, live the incredible life of ages yet
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  Speaker 2: to come in a time that might be a million
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  Speaker 2: years from now on X-1. Countdown for blastoff.
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  Speaker 3: X-5, 4, 3, 2, X-1, fire.
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  Speaker 4: From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
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  Speaker 4: new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of
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  Speaker 4: the future. Adventures in which you'll live in a million
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  Speaker 4: could be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National
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  Speaker 4: Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 5: X minus 1.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, Point of Departure by Vaughan Shelton. But first, hear this.
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  Speaker 4: A garden party for a queen, and you're invited. A
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  Speaker 4: trip to Tokyo, and you'll go along. The Army football
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  Speaker 4: game at West Point, and you have a seat on
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  Speaker 4: the 50-yard line. These are just a few highlights of
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  Speaker 4: the weekend Monitor has planned for you. Tomorrow night, Jinx
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  Speaker 4: Falkenberg is your personal guide at the party being given
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  Speaker 4: for England's Queen Elizabeth in the Garden of the British
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  Speaker 4: Embassy in Washington, D.C., Saturday, you'll be off to Historic
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  Speaker 4: West Point for the great Army-Pittsburgh football game. And that
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  Speaker 4: excursion will be followed later in the Monitor Day by
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  Speaker 4: a trip to Tokyo, where you'll visit the famed Japanese
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  Speaker 4: Kabuki Theater and the exotic Ginza Nightclub District. Eleanor Roosevelt,
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  Speaker 4: Helen Hayes, Pat Boone, and Tony Perkins will be among
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  Speaker 4: the celebrities visiting Monitor this weekend. There'll be music, comedy,
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  Speaker 4: my favorite McGee and Molly, Bob and Ray, features, news,
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  Speaker 4: and sports. So start your weekend right with Monitor on
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  Speaker 4: Friday night and stay with Monitor all weekend long over
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  Speaker 4: most of these same NBC radio stations. Now, X-1 and
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  Speaker 4: Point of Departure by Vaughn Shelton.
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  Speaker 6: Before I make this statement, I am well aware that you, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 6: are the board of directors and not likely to believe me.
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  Speaker 6: The overwhelming concrete fact that we face is that the
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  Speaker 6: Utah Flats Atomic Plant is short $ 300, 000. You've asked for
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  Speaker 6: an explanation before the district attorney's office has called. I
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  Speaker 6: shall explain, but I know I will not be believed.
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  Speaker 6: It started with a letter I received from Dr. Winson Reed,
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  Speaker 6: the archaeologist. He is the top man in this field.
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  Speaker 6: You may have heard of the Yukton discoveries and, of course,
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  Speaker 6: the Poseidon tablets found in the vault under the Sphinx.
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  Speaker 6: His letter introduced me to a Simon Kane who flew
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  Speaker 6: in from Salt Lake City and made an appointment for
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  Speaker 6: the following afternoon.
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  Speaker 7: Mr. Donner, I'm sorry that Dr. Reed has left again
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  Speaker 7: for the field today. I should like to have him
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  Speaker 7: with me at this meeting.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Kane, I don't quite understand why you've come to me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm merely a plant manager for Allied Electronics, and I
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  Speaker 6: have no interest in archaeology, nor have I access to
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  Speaker 6: any funds.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not here on a begging expedition, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Donner.
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  Speaker 7: I'll come right to the point. Do you know anything
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  Speaker 7: of the Poseidon tablets?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I've read newspaper accounts.
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  Speaker 7: The preliminary translations of the Protolithic seals that surrounded the
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  Speaker 7: tablets indicate a civilization that flourished on the equatorial continent
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  Speaker 7: until it was... destroyed by a natural catastrophe identified as
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  Speaker 7: the biblical flood at about 10,000 B.C.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, really? I'm afraid I had it confused with the
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  Speaker 5: Dead Sea Scrolls.
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  Speaker 7: Well, the lay public has not been informed that the
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  Speaker 7: tablets have been opened.
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  Speaker 5: Opened?
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  Speaker 7: Why, yes. The original inscription surrounded them. They were in
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  Speaker 7: wedge-shaped characters on baked clay. They had been removed from
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  Speaker 7: the tablets.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's all very interesting, but really I think.
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  Speaker 7: They remain at large. Six of them have been translated
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  Speaker 7: so far. They indicate a scientifically advanced culture, and particularly,
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  Speaker 7: they concern themselves with a solar energy converter.
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  Speaker 5: You mean that literally? A power source from the sun?
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  Speaker 7: Yes. According to the preliminary translations, this solar converter delivers
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  Speaker 7: such fantastic power that it makes our nuclear source look
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  Speaker 7: as primitive as a windmill.
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  Speaker 5: And I suppose that's why you've come to me.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, we wanted to check the instructions against actual tests
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  Speaker 7: in the laboratory in a field.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm quite willing to have my engineering staff look
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  Speaker 6: over the plans and give you an opinion if it
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  Speaker 6: will help you in your research.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that seems quite fair. I'll bring them to your
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  Speaker 7: office in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose I half believed him at the time.
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  Speaker 6: I had heard of the Poseidon tablets, and I knew
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  Speaker 6: that the frontier of archaeology had been pushed back.
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  Speaker 5: Far beyond current thought by them.
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  Speaker 6: You gentlemen of the board of directors will have to
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  Speaker 6: believe me that I suspected no fraud.
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  Speaker 5: I had no reason to doubt Kane.
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  Speaker 6: I called in Rowell and Henninger, two of our engineers,
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  Speaker 6: and left them alone with Kane.
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  Speaker 5: About five o'clock, I got Rowell back in my office. Mr. Donner,
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  Speaker 5: it's remarkable. Quite remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I don't quite understand the field mathematics involved.
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  Speaker 6: Raoul, I want a simple answer from you because I'm
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  Speaker 6: a simple executive type.
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  Speaker 5: Will that thing work or not?
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  Speaker 3: Well, of course, it'll need a field test, but theoretically
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  Speaker 3: I see no reason why it shouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: Should we build it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there isn't any question, is there? It's revolutionary. Quite revolutionary.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: You and Henninger are assigned to it. I'll give it
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  Speaker 6: a project name in the morning and allocate a research budget.
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  Speaker 6: You'll be working with Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Kane.
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  Speaker 5: I took great care to protect the corporation's interests.
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  Speaker 6: I shall submit in evidence the contracts I drew up
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  Speaker 6: with Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Kane... I set Rowell.
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  Speaker 6: And Henninger up in an isolated shop in the west
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  Speaker 6: corner of the plant area, and they had a device
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  Speaker 6: functioning within three weeks. A week later, I checked in
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  Speaker 6: at the shop again and found Rowell still working with
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  Speaker 6: the power unit. Naturally, I asked what.
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  Speaker 5: He was doing.
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  Speaker 3: You see, I'm getting ready to mount the solar energy
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  Speaker 3: converter on the projectile now, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Donner. What projectile? Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Keene leased a surplus one-man rocket from the White Sands project.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to rig the solar unit in it. You
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  Speaker 3: mean power a rocket with the solar unit? You see,
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  Speaker 3: it's a question of field mathematics and the quantum... Raoul,
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  Speaker 3: I'm an administrator, not a scientist. I ask you your
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  Speaker 3: engineering opinion.
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  Speaker 6: Is this a feasible research project?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it most certainly is.
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  Speaker 3: Using the solar converter, you could develop thrust up to
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  Speaker 3: escape velocity at only 10% of potential. This solar converter
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  Speaker 3: is creating more power than any atomic pile we have.
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  Speaker 5: Mr. Donner, this is it. Spaceflight.
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  Speaker 4: You are listening to Point of Departure. Tonight's attraction on X-1.
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  Speaker 4: This is.
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  Speaker 5: Now back to X-1.
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  Speaker 4: And Point of Departure. Now back to X-1 and point
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  Speaker 4: of departure.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, whereas the purchase of the projectile was not authorized,
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  Speaker 6: I should like to point out to the board that
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  Speaker 6: I acted most conservatively. I checked the cost sheets and
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  Speaker 6: discovered that the rocket purchase was actually within the allowable
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  Speaker 6: debt limitations for my department, and so I okayed the project. However,
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  Speaker 6: I was concerned with the irregularity of an expenditure before authorization.
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  Speaker 6: So I drove out to Simon Cain's place to speak
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  Speaker 6: to him about it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Donner, I'd like you to meet Porter Hayes.
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  Speaker 5: Aye, how do you do? No, no, no, look here, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Hayes has agreed to fly the ship.
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  Speaker 5: Look, that's what I want to talk to you about.
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  Speaker 7: He's with the Pan-Columbian Project, and he's flown all the
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  Speaker 7: other types that have been flown so far.
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  Speaker 5: This is the one that'll make history, Mr. Donner.
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  Speaker 9: This ship will fly anywhere in the solar system, probably
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  Speaker 9: clear out to most other planets without even carrying a
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  Speaker 9: fuel supply.
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  Speaker 5: Best thing about it is the actual guarantee of a
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  Speaker 5: return trip.
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  Speaker 9: You know, those geniuses down at Pan Columbia have plenty
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  Speaker 9: of ideas for getting you out there, but very few
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  Speaker 9: for getting you back.
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  Speaker 7: I've been showing Mr. Hayes the photographs of the original
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  Speaker 7: tablets and translations. You see, Mr. Donner, aren't they beautiful work?
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  Speaker 5: Kane, I want to talk to you in private. The
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  Speaker 5: cost sheets. Hey, Kane, where's the last tablet? There are
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  Speaker 5: only pictures of 13 here.
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  Speaker 7: That's right. The first 13 tablets take us through the
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  Speaker 7: construction of the unit and the ship and the inventor's
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  Speaker 7: six successful trial flights. The 14th hasn't been translated yet.
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  Speaker 7: It takes about a month to decipher each tablet.
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  Speaker 5: Do you do it yourself?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, no. That's a special study. My wife
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  Speaker 7: does it. She's an Egyptian scholar in her own right.
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  Speaker 7: Her father was Egypt's foremost antiquarian. I believe she's about
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  Speaker 7: to honor us with her... Ah, Nalja. I should like
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  Speaker 7: you to meet Mr. Hayes and Mr. Donner.
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  Speaker 8: How do you do, gentlemen? How do you do?
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  Speaker 7: My dear, we thought you could give us a hint
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  Speaker 7: about the text of the 14th tablet... Are you far
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  Speaker 7: enough along?
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  Speaker 8: No, I am sorry. I have only just started.
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  Speaker 10: The language symbols are a little different from the others,
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  Speaker 10: and it is a bit difficult to read.
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  Speaker 9: Well, all I want to know is, when's the ship
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  Speaker 9: going to be ready?
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  Speaker 7: In good time. It's waited 12,000 years. A week or
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  Speaker 7: two more won't matter.
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  Speaker 5: The End.
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  Speaker 6: During the next two weeks, I was too busy with
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  Speaker 6: other things to worry much about the project, but I
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  Speaker 6: would like to call the board's attention to the fact
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  Speaker 6: that I submitted multiple progress reports at five-day intervals as
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  Speaker 6: required by plant operating procedure. I am at a loss
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  Speaker 6: to understand why those reports are now missing from the files.
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  Speaker 5: One evening on.
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  Speaker 6: A visit to Salt Lake, I was dining at the
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  Speaker 6: Pioneer Arms when I spotted Porter Hayes at the table
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  Speaker 6: across the room. He was with a young lady who
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  Speaker 6: looked familiar to me, even from the back, and of
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  Speaker 6: course I realized it was Nalgia Kane. I felt it
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  Speaker 6: was discretionary on my part not to inform Mr. Kane
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  Speaker 6: of his wife's continuing acquaintance with Porter Hayes. On July 19th,
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  Speaker 6: Kane telephoned and said the airship was rigged and ready
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  Speaker 6: to go. I had assigned him an area in our
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  Speaker 6: desert test space, and we scheduled the test for the
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  Speaker 6: next morning. I got to the test site a little late.
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  Speaker 6: Everything was ready and they were waiting for me. The
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  Speaker 6: gantry train moved back and without the usual roar of
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  Speaker 6: chemical rockets or the scream of jets, the ship rose
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  Speaker 6: gradually to about 10 feet and then shot up to
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  Speaker 6: a couple of hundred and then stopped again.
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  Speaker 5: Kane was on the intercom.
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  Speaker 8: Hayes!
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  Speaker 5: Hayes!
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  Speaker 7: Is it powering right?
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  Speaker 5: What does he say?
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  Speaker 7: He's satisfied. The craft works perfectly. He's going to take
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  Speaker 7: it straight out for four or five hours and then
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  Speaker 7: come back.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he can't do that. There's too much he doesn't
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  Speaker 5: know about that ship. Tell him to come back.
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  Speaker 7: Let him alone. He's making history.
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  Speaker 5: But the first time.
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  Speaker 7: There he goes. Well, I think I'll go down the
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  Speaker 7: road a few miles to get some breakfast. I'll be
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  Speaker 7: back shortly.
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  Speaker 5: That was four days ago.
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  Speaker 6: I wanted clear to the members of the board that
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  Speaker 6: I have not notified the authorities. The ship carried the
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  Speaker 6: standard survival kit with seven days ration and water, and
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  Speaker 6: if he had no operational trouble, Hayes could stay out
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  Speaker 6: at least a week. Other than filing the original flight
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  Speaker 6: plan with the joint astronautics board, I had no other
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  Speaker 6: official obligation. When Kane did not return to the test
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  Speaker 6: site by noon, I to look for him. Meeting with
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: no success, I attempted to question Mrs. Kane at her
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  Speaker 6: hotel room.
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  Speaker 8: I cannot tell you. I cannot tell you anything.
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  Speaker 5: Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Kane, this is a matter of vital necessity to our corporation.
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  Speaker 6: I have exceeded my research budget on my own responsibility.
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  Speaker 6: I must find your husband. If something happens to the rocket,
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  Speaker 6: there'll be an investigation.
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  Speaker 5: An official investigation.
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  Speaker 8: It will all come out then, won't it?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 8: About my father.
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  Speaker 5: Mrs. Kane, I don't understand. What has your father to
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  Speaker 5: do with this?
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  Speaker 8: He stole the tablets. At least I thought he did.
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  Speaker 5: You mean the tablets that you've been translating?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 10: I thought he had stolen them. Simon Kane told me that.
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  Speaker 10: He brought me the cases soon after we were married.
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  Speaker 10: I helped him smuggle them out of Egypt to protect
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  Speaker 10: my father. He swore if I didn't help him to
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  Speaker 10: translate the inscriptions, he'd expose my father and disgrace him.
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  Speaker 8: But now it's too late. He's dead.
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  Speaker 5: You mean your father?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, he is. Porter Hayes told me. He called me
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  Speaker 8: this morning.
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  Speaker 5: That must have been before the test.
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  Speaker 8: My father's been dead for six months. Murdered.
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  Speaker 10: Simon Kane murdered my father. He killed him and stole
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  Speaker 10: the tablets from him. Porter Hayes told me. He has
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  Speaker 10: the proof.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's... I'm really sorry, but... If Mr. Kane did
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  Speaker 5: come into possession of those tablets illegally, there will be
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  Speaker 5: a great deal of litigation.
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  Speaker 6: Patent rights, you know. That's our primary concern. Now, of course,
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  Speaker 6: we'll have to have whatever proof we can. The original tablets,
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  Speaker 6: any photostats, notes are.
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  Speaker 8: They are all gone.
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  Speaker 5: You mean Kane took them?
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  Speaker 8: He destroyed them. He burned them.
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  Speaker 10: He laughed at me this morning. He told me I
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  Speaker 10: could never prove they'd ever existed.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: However, we do have the corroborative evidence of the solar converter,
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  Speaker 6: its plans at the plant, the prototype model, and, of course,
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  Speaker 6: the rocket.
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  Speaker 8: Porter Hayes flew it, didn't he? He flew away.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Hayes, yes, but he's on the test flight. Now,
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  Speaker 5: as soon as he comes back, we'll have to get
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  Speaker 5: his affidavit.
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  Speaker 6: I'll admit I am at a loss to understand the
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  Speaker 6: absence from the plant files of all plans and prototype
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  Speaker 6: models of the solar converter.
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  Speaker 5: However, I am.
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  Speaker 6: Awaiting a report momentarily from our proving ground near Salt
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  Speaker 6: Lake on the return of Porter Hayes and the rocket.
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  Speaker 5: In the meantime, I am in receipt of a communication
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  Speaker 5: from Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Kane, who had discovered a sketch of the 14th tablet,
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  Speaker 6: which remained unburned. She includes a translation, and I open
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  Speaker 6: this now, In the presence of you, gentlemen, and I
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  Speaker 6: include it in my report, I am convinced that the translation,
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  Speaker 6: which I have never seen before, will prove to you, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 6: my probity and my good faith in the corporation's behalf.
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  Speaker 5: Now I open the envelope. The translation, 14th tablet, and
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: I quote....
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  Speaker 6: The foregoing record is accurate and we acknowledge a superlative
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: contribution to science of the inventor.
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  Speaker 5: And there is a name here I cannot pronounce. I continue.
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  Speaker 6: But we must admit his greatest contribution is in the
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: proving of an axiom where ultimate force is involved. It
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: is better to know none of the laws than to
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: know most of them. On the fourth day, the aircraft
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  Speaker 6: returned from far space to the point of its departure.
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  Speaker 6: The aircraft was in excellent condition, but the solar converter
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: was completely fused into a shapeless mass of metal.
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  Speaker 5: Of the inventor, the pilot of the craft, nothing remained
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  Speaker 5: but his clothing and a handful of White dust. I
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: must conclude my report by... by proffering my resignation.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: I will be at the district attorney's disposal when you
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: gentlemen of the board choose to call me in.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: You have just heard X-1... presented by the National Broadcasting
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: month features Willie Lay's factual account of the fascinating disappearance
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: of the Dodo. On with the Dodo hunt. Galaxy Magazine,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: on your newsstand today. X-1 has brought you Point of Departure,
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: a story from the pages of Galaxy written by Vaughn
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Shelton and adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured in
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: our cast were Dean Lyman Olmquist as Mr. Donner and
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  Speaker 4: Ilya Braka as Mrs.
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  Speaker 10: Kane.
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  Speaker 4: This is Fred Collins. X-1 was directed by George Voutsas
• 20:30
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