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other company has a charter now, too. They're going to operate on Jurgen
and Horvendile. We'll sell them ships, and Alpha-Interplanetary will put
on scheduled trips to all three planets and also Koshchei. We're getting
along very nicely with them, except[Pg 150] that everybody's competing
for technicians and skilled labor. We have two hundred more people
signed up for Koshchei. What you want to do is train as many of them as
you can for ship-operation. Alpha-Interplanetary is going to start a
training program here at Storisende; you'd better leave one of your
ships for them to work on, and send back as many ships as you can find
officers and crews for."

"We're getting things really started."

"Yes. The only trouble is...." His father frowned. "I don't understand
these people, Conn. Everybody ought to be making millions out of this by
this time next year, but all any of them, even these Storisende bankers,
can talk about is how soon we're going to find Merlin."