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  Speaker 1: On an overcrowded, polluted earth ruled by advertising power. Copywriter
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Courtney is assigned to sell emigration to Venus. This
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  Speaker 1: is CBS Radio Workshop Space Merchants, Part two, Episode fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: first broadcast on CBS February twenty fourth, nineteen fifty seven,
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  Speaker 1: the concluding half of a two part adaptation of Frederick
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  Speaker 1: Pohl and C. M. Kornbluff's novel The Space Merchants. Stotts
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  Speaker 1: Cottsworth plays Courtney, with Virginia Kay as Kathy. Charles Munroe
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  Speaker 1: adapted the novel for radio, and Paul Roberts directed and
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  Speaker 1: produced as Courtney's immense campaign advances opposition to the corporate
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  Speaker 1: order challenges both his assignment and the world around him.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: You are a board a cargo jet in the twenty
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  Speaker 2: second century.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a man we had trouble with and the whole
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  Speaker 3: of the time.
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  Speaker 4: What's his complaint?
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  Speaker 3: And he claims he's Mitchell Courtney, a copy smith's star
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  Speaker 3: class or the Follower's shock and advertising company.
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  Speaker 5: He says he's been Shanghai toboard this jet.
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  Speaker 4: Roll up his sleeve, let's see his social security tattoo.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah one three oh four dash nine nine seven four
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  Speaker 4: dash one four one six dash one five six one
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  Speaker 4: eight seven seventy two three liar, get him out of here.
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  Speaker 4: If these with shock and advertising, you'd have a low number.
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  Speaker 6: Can't you see it's been altered. Let me use the
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  Speaker 6: radio and talk to missus shocking himself.
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  Speaker 1: Ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 4: Whe're from mister Courtney the dead. Take a look at
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  Speaker 4: this copy of Today's New York Times dated February seventeen,
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  Speaker 4: twenty one and fifty seven.
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  Speaker 6: Mitchell Courtney, head of the Venus Rocket Project. If the
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  Speaker 6: Fowler shockun Advertising firm has been found dead in little America.
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  Speaker 6: Now wait a minute. A man by the name of
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  Speaker 6: Matt Runstead knocked me out there. But can't you see
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  Speaker 6: that I'm alive? I am Mitchell corn Haha.
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  Speaker 4: You can prove that after ten years, ten years, my
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  Speaker 4: manifest shows that you're not an advertising man. You're only
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  Speaker 4: a consumer named George Groby. You've signed up for ten
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  Speaker 4: years labor and Costa Rica, and those ten years begin
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  Speaker 4: as soon as this jet sets down. Take him back
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  Speaker 4: to the.
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  Speaker 2: Whole The CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to Man's imagination, The
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  Speaker 2: Theater of the Mind. The CBS Radio Workshop continues Part
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  Speaker 2: two of The Space Merchants by C. M. Kornbluth and
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  Speaker 2: Frederick Pohle. Today, the Workshop resumes the story of Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: Courtney Copysmith's star class with the world's greatest advertising agency
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  Speaker 2: of the Future, Follower shopun associates the tale of a
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  Speaker 2: rocket ride to Venus.
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  Speaker 6: I lay on my filthy bunk in the hold of
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  Speaker 6: the cargo jets, trying to think of a way to
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  Speaker 6: get back to New York. I wanted to find out
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  Speaker 6: why Matt Unstead had knocked me out and had me shanghaied.
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  Speaker 5: Who wanted to get me off?
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  Speaker 6: The Venus Projects, the advertising campaign we dreamed up to
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  Speaker 6: colonize Venus.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to get back to my wife, Campy.
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  Speaker 6: There was nothing I could do until this cargo jet
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  Speaker 6: landed in Costa Rica. Will use comps commers gay. Now,
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  Speaker 6: what's your name Mitchell Courtney?
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  Speaker 3: Mitchell court Oh, yeah, you're the bumb we had trouble
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  Speaker 3: with on the plane.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, my name is George Groby. Oh that's better. What
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  Speaker 6: do you want to do here? Groby got any choice
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  Speaker 6: of job, anything, anything. The sun drenched plantations of Costa
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  Speaker 6: Rica have to offer. I'm here to clasp the deft
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  Speaker 6: hands of independent farmers with pride in their work. I'm
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  Speaker 6: here to extract the juicy, ripe goodness of chlorella protein. Say,
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  Speaker 6: how'd you learn that? That's our prime impact? Commercial?
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  Speaker 5: Learn it?
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  Speaker 6: I wrote it. But don't let that stand in your way.
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  Speaker 3: Groby, You're not going Did I get anywhere being a
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  Speaker 3: wise guy?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, you're a sign.
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  Speaker 3: Is a Clorilla scum skimmer, third class report for duty
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  Speaker 3: an assignment to a bunk at Tier forty eight Dormitory Z.
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  Speaker 6: The heart of Clorilla products is a strange, glutinous, ever
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  Speaker 6: growing organism called Chicken Little. It provides one third of
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  Speaker 6: the world with the protein that replaces old fashioned meat.
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  Speaker 6: It grows in huge, sweating vats, and only the constant
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  Speaker 6: slicing keeps it from overgrowing and covering Costa Rica and
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  Speaker 6: its neighbors, or in time, the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 5: I had written of.
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  Speaker 6: Its delights many times in the agency, but I now
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  Speaker 6: came to note at firsthand I was assigned to skim
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  Speaker 6: the scum which dripped from its sides.
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  Speaker 7: She stinks pretty bad, don't you are here?
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  Speaker 6: But she's beautiful chicken little Orkay, No, she's pretty offul.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, this is the first time I ever hear you
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  Speaker 7: say the advertisements are wrong. Go in to town with
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  Speaker 7: me tonight, Orkay.
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  Speaker 5: I made one friend, the master slicer named Herrera.
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  Speaker 6: He's been aloof and stand office at first befitting his
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  Speaker 6: high station. But now he befriended me. I mean a
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  Speaker 6: lot of favors. I didn't know why until that night.
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  Speaker 6: We went on the town to a dark, almost empty cafe.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, I have much you very carefully. You don't belong
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  Speaker 7: here doing this work, but.
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  Speaker 6: Dat I am I ever gonna get out.
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  Speaker 7: You have the brains, Orkay, not like the others, and thanks,
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  Speaker 7: but good of brains here.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so tired half the time I can't think.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I want to put my life in your pants.
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  Speaker 6: Do you ever hear of the CONCIS. But CONCIS, of course?
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  Speaker 6: You know what the CONCIS stand for.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, World Conservation Association.
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  Speaker 7: I mean their ideas. Oh, I know you have heard
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  Speaker 7: they are dangered. I want a revolution.
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  Speaker 6: I want to go back to the old ways, real meat,
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  Speaker 6: real grains and fruits. They want to break for the consumer.
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  Speaker 6: They say nothing in packages, nothing test and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 7: Do you think they are so wrong after six months?
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  Speaker 2: Here here?
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  Speaker 7: Or hey, take this pamphlet, read it, then talk to
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  Speaker 7: me again, or denounce me.
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  Speaker 6: I am not afraid the Kanci underground opposed everything is
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  Speaker 6: self respecting twenty second century advertising man like me believed.
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  Speaker 5: I would have denounced.
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  Speaker 6: Terra to the Colorilla authority is the next.
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  Speaker 5: Day, except for one thing.
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  Speaker 6: If I joined the Concis first, if I learned their
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  Speaker 6: organization and secrets, I'd have a better bargaining position and
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  Speaker 6: getting back to New York. I joined them. The irony
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  Speaker 6: was the Concis were a lot better organized than I'd suspected,
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  Speaker 6: and after six months they decided they needed me in
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  Speaker 6: New York, and it was they who engineered my return
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  Speaker 6: to the city. I returned to New York on a
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  Speaker 6: secret mission for the Conciers. Two weeks after being in
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  Speaker 6: New York, I got the secret sign to attend the
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  Speaker 6: CONCI meeting at the Metropolitan Museum as my first taste
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  Speaker 6: of luxury in more than a year. I hailed a
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  Speaker 6: Cadillac petticab and told the driver to take me to
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  Speaker 6: the Metropolitan Museum.
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  Speaker 8: You can't do better to visit the Metropolitan Museum Master
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  Speaker 8: World's greatest Masterplaces. Don't miss the painting on the first floor.
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  Speaker 8: It's called I dreamed I was ice fishing in my
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  Speaker 8: wonderfum Bra.
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  Speaker 7: I read it brought a million and a half, got
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  Speaker 7: a satelass.
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  Speaker 8: Don't miss the theatric collection. It got dancing cigarette. Say,
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  Speaker 8: uh you mind? If we stop a second, these no
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  Speaker 8: Cadillac cabs will hide the pedal. Okay, get out?
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  Speaker 6: Oh no you don't.
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  Speaker 5: What's the idea of the gun?
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  Speaker 8: I recognize you when you walked out of Grand Central,
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  Speaker 8: mister Mitchell Courtney.
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  Speaker 6: What do you want with me?
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  Speaker 8: I want you to get out of a cab and
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  Speaker 8: come with me to the Taunton Agency. They want for
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  Speaker 8: the big fat, juicy reward for anybody wh'll bring them
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  Speaker 8: the inside story of Folly shockuns Venus Rocket project.
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  Speaker 6: And you're the boy who headed it out. So you're
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  Speaker 6: the boys who shanghied me and got me off the project.
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  Speaker 8: That or not, I don't know who did. Wait, you're
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  Speaker 8: glad we found you, the boy with all those night
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  Speaker 8: secrets about colonizing God, what's those secrets?
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  Speaker 5: Come on, get out of care.
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  Speaker 6: Drop that gun, drop it or break your neck. I
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  Speaker 6: grabbed the gun and hit him behind the air. Then
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  Speaker 6: I ran across Fifth Avenue and lost myself in a
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  Speaker 6: group of consumers on the sidewalk rolling back towards Sharkun Towers.
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  Speaker 6: I jumped off and ran to the express elevator. I
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  Speaker 6: walked down the corridor to the Shakan's office. It was
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  Speaker 6: dark and deserted. Then down the corridor I saw lights
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  Speaker 6: under my old office door.
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  Speaker 5: I walked up to it and I didn't knock.
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  Speaker 6: Hester.
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  Speaker 5: Mitch, Oh, no, it's all right. I'm alive.
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  Speaker 9: Oh Mitch, they said you were dead.
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  Speaker 6: Matt lunstaid, yes, everyone believed you did. My wife did,
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  Speaker 6: Kathy believe him? Hester.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get her on the phone for me. Call her.
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  Speaker 10: She's disappeared me. No one's been able to find her
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  Speaker 10: after the news of your death. She just closed her
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  Speaker 10: office and disappeared to be.
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  Speaker 5: Shocking knows where she is. Where is Shocking? Hester?
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  Speaker 10: Well, he caught the moon rocket yesterday morning. He was
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  Speaker 10: going over your notes on the Venus project. He's taking
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  Speaker 10: it over, yes, from Matt Runstead. It was going bad.
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  Speaker 5: That's trying to ruin our campaign.
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  Speaker 6: Hester. You've got to get me aboard the next Moon rocket.
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  Speaker 6: Use the name George Grobi Runstead and a Taunton agency.
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  Speaker 6: You'll try to stop a man named Courtney. I've got
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  Speaker 6: a lot to tell, mister shocking.
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  Speaker 11: Passengers. This way please, We are now on the Moon tour.
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  Speaker 11: Us to the Moon to the left, Visitors on business
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  Speaker 11: to the right.
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  Speaker 6: Now for the name George Groby, copy Analyst class four
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  Speaker 6: Groby copy Analysts four. Oh God, this way please, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 6: this man says his name is George Groby. Fine, you're
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  Speaker 6: under arrest, Groby, but go of me. I'm here to
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  Speaker 6: see Fouler shack. Mister Runstead down on the earth told
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  Speaker 6: us to expect you. I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 11: You may be interested to know that your secretary, Miss
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  Speaker 11: Hester Barnes, is being tried for treason. She's charged with
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  Speaker 11: forging documents and passing them to you. The forty third
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  Speaker 11: Amendment to the United States Constitution, treason to any registered
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  Speaker 11: advertising agency is punishable by death. Hold him for the
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  Speaker 11: return passage in a similar charge. Garden that God had
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  Speaker 11: his knight's in my back.
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  Speaker 6: As we walk down the streets past storefronts with signs
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  Speaker 6: Moon made Fashion, stunning conversation pieces proved you were here.
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  Speaker 6: Souvenirs of Luna cheapest in town. Moon suits rented fifty
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  Speaker 6: years without a blowout. Ye tasty GOODI shop on ye
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  Speaker 6: Moon Warren. Astron readings by appointment only. Hold what is it?
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  Speaker 6: You sure your name's Grovy? Positive?
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  Speaker 5: Ever know a man named Herrera? Well? Yes, Herrera. Now
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  Speaker 5: wish we.
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  Speaker 12: Could find out what you're up to, Groby. Send out
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  Speaker 12: a costa rica a report in New York. Never show
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  Speaker 12: up at a meeting there. Then you turn up at
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  Speaker 12: Fowler Shakans Agency and get your passage on a moon rock.
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  Speaker 5: I mean you're a shot up.
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  Speaker 12: Now go into Astrons there you'll hide you till our
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  Speaker 12: top boss up here comes. First, take my nightstick, knock
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  Speaker 12: me out with it, then point it at the street
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  Speaker 12: light and blast it out.
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  Speaker 5: Hit me hard, but not too.
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  Speaker 12: Oh this is going to cost me two strikes in
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  Speaker 12: a week's pay.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my concert training was really paying off. Astroan took
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  Speaker 6: me in stride, hit me in a room under his floor,
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  Speaker 6: gave me something to eat, and I fell asleep. I
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  Speaker 6: waked with a light pouring down into my face.
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  Speaker 5: You can come up now, Groby, the chief is here
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  Speaker 5: to see you in that room back there, I'll see
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  Speaker 5: you're not disturbed.
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  Speaker 13: Thanks over here, into the light, mister Groby Kathy, What
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  Speaker 13: are you doing here?
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  Speaker 9: Mitch?
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  Speaker 14: Why didn't you stay on ice? What crazy thing have
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  Speaker 14: you done to turn up here?
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  Speaker 5: I'm crazy? Why shouldn't I be crazy? My wife a
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  Speaker 5: kingpin consert?
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  Speaker 14: What a shock? You? A star class copy smith married
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  Speaker 14: to a kNs.
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  Speaker 6: Matt's one of you? You got Matt Runstead to shanghai
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  Speaker 6: me m.
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  Speaker 5: Like a fool.
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  Speaker 14: I thought if I could get you away from Fowler Shakan,
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  Speaker 14: I might bring you to your senses.
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  Speaker 5: Trying to decide what was best for poor little Mitch. Mitch.
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  Speaker 6: I loved you, You loved me, You actually were in
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  Speaker 6: love with me, Yes.
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  Speaker 14: I was, in spite of everything you stood for. But
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  Speaker 14: you are not going to talk to Fowler Shakan.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not Mitch.
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  Speaker 14: I don't want you to ruin Venus the way you've
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  Speaker 14: ruined the world.
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  Speaker 5: A woman of ideals, What do you plan to do
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  Speaker 5: with me?
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  Speaker 14: Are you going to report to Fowler Shakan? Yes, then
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  Speaker 14: there is nothing I can do for you.
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  Speaker 6: Then let me tell you something before you turn me
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  Speaker 6: over to restaurant on your friends outside I've been shanghaied,
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  Speaker 6: robbed my name, forced to work like a slave in
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  Speaker 6: the tropics. I've had all I can take of others
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  Speaker 6: deciding what to do about poor old Mitch.
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  Speaker 5: Your godfriend left this night stick with me. You know
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  Speaker 5: what he does, Kathy, get.
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  Speaker 6: On that phone and call Fowler's Shatun and tell him
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  Speaker 6: where I am. Then get out, take your friends with you.
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  Speaker 6: I'll give you two days to vanish, but this time
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  Speaker 6: stay out of sight forever.
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  Speaker 5: Go on call Shocking.
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  Speaker 14: This is doctor Evans, Mitchell Courtney's widow. I'd like to
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  Speaker 14: speak to mister Shockun.
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  Speaker 6: Please match my boy.
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  Speaker 15: I'm going to fatten you up and turn venus section
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  Speaker 15: back to you. You know my policy. Find a good horse,
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  Speaker 15: give him his head and back him to the limit.
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  Speaker 15: You've never let me down, and venus sections in rotten shape.
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  Speaker 15: Nobody's applying for space on the Venus Rocket. The whole
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  Speaker 15: campaigns at sea the end of seas are down to
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  Speaker 15: three point thirty seven for North America. They should before
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  Speaker 15: and rising. We've got to get those eighteen hundred consumers
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  Speaker 15: on board the Venus Rocket.
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  Speaker 6: When we got back to Worth, Matt Runstead had disappeared.
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  Speaker 6: I arranged for Hester to be released from Alcatraz, and
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  Speaker 6: she returned in triumph in Sharkan's private jet. I began
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  Speaker 6: to whip the Venus Rocket project back into shape. I
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  Speaker 6: was living again, writing new jingles, starting new rumors by
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  Speaker 6: word of mouth, developing new techniques, until finally, Mitch, a
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  Speaker 6: big day has come.
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  Speaker 15: Eighteen hundred consumers have volunteered to write our rocket to Venus.
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  Speaker 15: Now I've arranged for Congress to meet tomorrow, and my boy,
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  Speaker 15: I want you to address them as Fowler Shakans personal representative,
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  Speaker 15: requesting a takeoff date.
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  Speaker 8: Gentlemen, the Senate is now in session. You all received
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  Speaker 8: the recording of the opening prayer last night. So let's
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  Speaker 8: hear from the Senator from Corella Limited and the Senator
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  Speaker 8: from Corela Limited passes and difference from the Senator from
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  Speaker 8: Alaska Mining.
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  Speaker 11: A Senator from Alaska Mining passes in favor of the
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  Speaker 11: Senator from the United States and Smelling. A Senator from
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  Speaker 11: the United Steel and Smelling passes in favor of the
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  Speaker 11: Senator from Caribbean Fruit.
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  Speaker 12: The Senator from Caribbean Fruits passes in favor of the
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  Speaker 12: Senator from Yummy Coola.
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  Speaker 11: My dear fellow senators, thank you all for graciously allowing
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  Speaker 11: me to speak before we pass upon this very important
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  Speaker 11: bill concerning the Venus Rocket. The people of this great
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  Speaker 11: republic of ours, extending from Atlantic see we to pacifically.
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  Speaker 6: Suddenly, I since something had gone wrong. I'd been sitting
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  Speaker 6: back thinking about Campy, thinking of her face, her voice,
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: a smile, before we'd married. I was wondering where she was,
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  Speaker 6: what she thought of all this, and the speaker's voice
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  Speaker 6: focused my attention upon him. I hadn't been worried. Foller
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Shunkin owned two thirds of this gathering, but there was
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  Speaker 6: something about old yummy collar that troubled me. He wasn't
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  Speaker 6: addressing his fellows. He was looking up, addressing me, a
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  Speaker 6: big grin on his face. I leaned forward just in
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  Speaker 6: time for the weenie.
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  Speaker 11: In a brief discussion I had before this session, mister
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  Speaker 11: Taunton gave me some information in private. But I feel
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  Speaker 11: it my public duty to ask a couple of questions
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  Speaker 11: of mister Courtney.
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  Speaker 6: Who is president.
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  Speaker 11: I would like to ask mister Courtney if the name
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  Speaker 11: of George Groby is familiar to him. I would like
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  Speaker 11: to ask if mister Courtney is George Groby. I would
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  Speaker 11: like to ask mister Courtney if when he was known
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  Speaker 11: as George Groby he was a member in good standing
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  Speaker 11: of the World Conservationist Association, known the most of us
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  Speaker 11: Lole American the content.
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  Speaker 5: Below.
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  Speaker 6: There was a raging tidal wave of Taunton congressmen and
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  Speaker 6: shot un congressmen battling for the first time in history.
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  Speaker 6: Shots were being fired in anger on the Senate floor.
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  Speaker 6: If Taunton hadn't tipped off or Yummy Coola, I knew
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  Speaker 6: who had the conscience.
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  Speaker 5: Somehow I didn't mind.
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  Speaker 6: I realized that for some time now I'd really been
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  Speaker 6: one of them. A little man besides me, dressed in black,
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  Speaker 6: suddenly seized my arm and let me outside. Jordan, you'll
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  Speaker 6: find a car outside ready to take you to the airport.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Courtney, what airport? Don't stop to ask questions. Just
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  Speaker 6: go wherever you're taking You'll be protected, fat sham, You'll
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  Speaker 6: be all right.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: I guarantee that, who are you the president? Good luck,
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: God bless you.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: I had to admire that little man's courage. He'd walked
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: back into that raging den of lions without a quiver.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Aboard the jetliner. I wondered what would happen to him
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: when they found out he'd sent me to safety?
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Or was it to safety?
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: I tried to ask questions of the men aboard the liner,
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: but they looked the other way and kept absolutely quiet.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: You can climb out now, mister Kartney.
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: They're all ready for you over there at the Venus rocket.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: There's no time to lose. Say look here, I don't
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: want to go to Venus.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Who's in charge here?
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: I won't go aboard that rocket. Everybody's aboard. But you
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: come on, mister Kartney.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Passenger fasten them in for the takeoff.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: Fastener off, Mitch, Mitch, are you in here?
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Kathy?
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Kathy?
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Where are you up here?
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: Over your head?
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Stop floating around? Come down here and unfasten me.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: All right, I'll try, but we're beyond the law of gravity.
• 22:54
  Speaker 14: We're on the way to Venus with eighteen hundred conservationists.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: How did you get out of a highness?
• 23:00
  Speaker 14: A steward set me free, then floated away.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: I have to talk to you me.
• 23:08
  Speaker 16: You threatened to kill me, Remember, yes, I remember you
• 23:12
  Speaker 16: could have Mitch in time, but you never told shock
• 23:16
  Speaker 16: and who of where I was?
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Why didn't you?
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Because I love you, Kathy, and I think that for
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: a long time, I've been coming over to your side.
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: And you're willing to face life on Venus.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's time people got a break.
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: People, not consumers. Oh. I like hearing you say that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 14: And I love you too, Mitch. Oh, Mitch, Mitch, you
• 23:43
  Speaker 14: broke my hold on your harness.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: Come back here. I just wanted to put my arms
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: around you.
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: There'll be plenty of time for that on Venus.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Come back here.
• 23:53
  Speaker 14: Unbuttle your harness and catch me.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I can't who invented this crazy gimmick anyway?
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: Oh Mitch, Mitch.
• 24:02
  Speaker 14: You've stopped talking like an advertising man.
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: Kiss me.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: The CBS Radio Workshop has presented Part two of The
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Space Merchants, adapted for radio by Charles S. Monroe, original
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: music composed and conducted by Samuel Matlofsky, Produced and directed
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: in New York by Paul Roberts. Stotts Cotsworth starred as Mitchell.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Courtney Virginia Kay as Kathy. Others in the cast were
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Ralph Camargo, Leon Janney, Joseph boland, Ian, Martin Jackson, Beck,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Ed Prentiss, Joe Julian, Mary Patten, Bob Dryden, Ralph Bell
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and Joe Helgeson. These sound effects were devised by Tom
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Buchanan and Tom Perkins. The engineer Jack Katz. This is
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Ted Pearson inviting you to listen again next week when
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: from Hollywood, the CBS Radio Workshop presents The Engine No
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: One Loved. It's the story of a Civil War locomotive
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: that wound up its career in the children's amusement park.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: This is the CBS Radio Network.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: CBS Radio Workshop has brought us Space Merchants Part two.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Good Night, and keep the old radio dial glowing. Follow
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Old Time Sci Fi Radio for more classic science fiction broadcasts.