THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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Conn shook his head. His father continued:

"Name's Jethro Sastraman. He could play Scrooge in /Christmas Carol/
without any makeup at all. He hasn't had a new idea since he got out of
college, and that was while the War was still going on. 'Preposterous;
utterly visionary and impractical,'" his father mimicked. "Fortunately,
a majority of the big stockholders didn't agree; they finally bullied
him into agreeing. We're calling the new company Alpha-Interplanetary,
we have an application for charter in, and that'll go through almost
automatically."

"Who's going to be the president of this new company?"

"You know him. Character named Rodney Maxwell. Yves is going to be
vice-president in charge of operations; he's flying to Barathrum
tomorrow or the next day with a gang of technicians we're recruiting. T.
& O. are giving us Clyde[Pg 97] Nichols and Mack Vibart, and a lot of