 Why was the Green Flame so sought after?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories Fall 1944. The Spacemen's was a sanctuary, a rest club where in-coming pilots and crewmen could relax before leaving for another voyage. The rule that no females could pass its portals was strictly enforced. There she stood before a frantically gesticulating desk clerk, leaning on her faded green umbrella. If Annabella C. Flowers wrote a novel, and the locale was the desert of Mars, she packed her carpet bag and hopped a liner for Craterville. For every question missed, the sender will receive a check for one thousand planetoles . Questions from Mars, from Earth, from Saturn flowed in the visi sets. Isolated miners on Jupiter, dancers in swank Plutonian cafes strove to stump the experts.
 It was more powerful than any known drug
 It was capable of shooting rays that would destroy every existance.  It was used in warfare and needed to be protected  It was too dangerous to be left unattended  It was more powerful than any known drug