MOBILIZATION: he Menacing Look

Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine nervously pushed through the crowd and cached the head table. There before him in the seat of honor was his wage stabilizer, Cyrus Ching, sucking away placidly at his stove-sized pipe. A frown of injured dignity crossed Valentine's face, but he took a seat at the left end of the table.

Presently, round little Price Stabilizer Michael DiSalle, the third member of the country's price & wage triumvirate, came waddling in. He lowered himself into a seat near Valentine and looked blandly out at the faces of...

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