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"Everybody doesn't have that many. It's according to your ability to support them, and, also, rank has its privileges. Besides, we figure it's a good idea to spread the best seed around. By mixing our blood with the Texcocan we improve the breed." Behind him, Taller, the Tulan boy, stirred, without notice. Kennedy finished off his highball and began to build another immediately. "Here we go again.
Barry, Dick for old time's sake, boys ..." Barry Watson said to Taller, "He's yours. If this doesn't take the pressure off us, nothing will." At the end of the third decade, the Texcocan delegation was already seated in the Pedagogue's lounge when Jerome Kennedy, Martin Gunther, Peter MacDonald, Fredric Buchwald and three Genoese, Baron Leonar and the Honorables Russ and Modrin appeared.
Why almost?" Mayer snapped, "Obviously, in a system of free competition, all cannot progress at once. Some go under." "Whole nations?" "Temporarily whole nations can receive setbacks as a result of defeat in war, or perhaps due to lack of natural resources. Some nations progress faster than others." Chessman said, "The whole Texcocan State is one great unit. Everywhere the gross product increases.
We seem to count refrigerators and privately owned automobiles. You seem to ignore personal standards and concentrate on steel tonnage." The Texcocan scientist, Wiss, said easily, "Given the steel mills, and eventually automobiles and refrigerators will run off our assembly lines like water, and will be available for everyone, not just those who can afford to buy them."
Buchwald said dryly, "If our agents are correct, Texcocan steel production is something like a quarter of our own. I assume your other basic products are at about the same stage of development." Watson flushed. "The thing to remember is that our economy continues to grow each year. Yours spurts and stops, jerks ahead a few steps, then grinds to a halt or even retreats.
Knock it off or I'll have you under arrest." The Texcocan team head turned abruptly to Mayer and Kennedy. "Let's stop this nonsense. We've come to compare progress. Let's begin." The three members of the Genoese team glared back in antagonism, but then Gunther said grudgingly, "He's right. There is no longer amiability between us, so let's forget about it.
Martin Gunther blurted, "Or you, Russ?" Wiss, the Texcocan scientist, held his wrist radio to his mouth and said, "Come in now." Dick Hawkins thumbed back the hammer of his hand gun. "Hold it a minute, Dick," Barry Watson said. "I don't like this." To Taller he rapped, "What goes on here? Talk up, you're just about a dead man." And it was then that they heard the scraping on the outer hull.
Even the pretense of amiability was gone. Watson rapped finally, "I am not going to dwell upon the measures you have been taking that can only be construed as military ones aimed eventually at the Texcocan State." Martin Gunther laughed nastily. "Is your implication that your own people have not taken the same measures, in fact, inaugurated them?"
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