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Updated: May 24, 2025
Trucks lined up in orderly fashion to go out the swing-up doors. Men came down from the scaffolds after putting their tools in proper between-shifts positions for counting and inspection and other men were streaming quietly from the pushpot assembly line.
Joe knew that Major Holt had, within the past five minutes, gathered together a tight-knit bunch of armed security men to be available for anything that might turn up. The men doing the normal shift-change screening were shorthanded in consequence. The floor next to the exits became crowded, but the central area of the floor was cleared. One truck was stalled at the swing-up truck doors.
Trucks carried materials to the Shed, and swing-up doors opened in the great dome's eastern wall, and the trucks went in and unloaded. Then the trucks went out of the same doors and trundled back for more materials. In the Shed, shining plates of metal swung aloft, and welding torches glittered in the maze of joists and upright pipes that still covered the monster shape.
I have thought about Aunt Susie, and it breaks me all up. But it can't be helped." She waited till he closed the gate and with a quick swing-up into the saddle drew alongside. Slowly they walked their horses up the avenue. "I s'pose you're right," he said at length. "Only only it has seemed to me that there's a lot of good time wasted doing useless things.
It was a man's body, toppled from somewhere high up on the structure that was the most important man-made thing in all the world. A barbaric war whoop sounded among the echoes of other tumult. A Security man shot, and one of the running figures toppled and slid, his burden which must certainly be a bomb rolling ridiculously. There had been two trucks that plunged through the swing-up door.
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