 What word doesn't describe Broderick?
"It is an outrage," said Koltan of the House of Masur, "that the Earthmen land among the Thorabians!" It is our strength and our fortune. "It is a damned imposition," agreed Morvan, ignoring his father's philosophical attitude. By this, he seemed to imply that the Thorabians would rob the Earthmen, which the Lorians would not. Such frank expression of motive was unheard of, even in the secret conclave of conference. However, they had Zotul to take it out upon, and they did. Zotul felt greatly cheered, for it refuted the attitude of his brothers without earning him a whaling for it. Accurate reporting, much less a newspaper, was unknown on Zur. The anti-Earthmen Faction—in any culture complex, there is always an "anti" faction to protest any movement of endeavor—crowed happily that the Earthmen were gone for good, and a good thing, too. In spite of the fact that a terrestrial ship had landed at every Zurian city of major and minor importance, and all in a single day, it took some time for the news to spread. In three years, more than a million had been made and sold by the Masurs alone, not counting the hundreds of thousands of copies turned out by competitors in every land. This, for some unknown reason and much to the disgust of the Lorians, was set up in Thorabia. Within five years of the first landing of the Earthmen, every major city on the globe had a printing press, a daily newspaper, and enjoyed the instantaneous transmission of news via telegraph. Think of the telegraph and the newspaper, how these spread news of every shipment from Earth. In their dozenth conference since that first and fateful one, the brothers Masur decided upon drastic steps. The drastic steps of the brothers applied, therefore, to making an energetic protest to the governor of Lor. The ship now standing on its fins upon the apron was loaded with printed circuits, resistors, variable condensers and other radio parts. This was Earth's first step toward flooding Zur with the natural follow-up in its campaign of advertising—radio programs—with commercials. Tile served well enough for houses and street surfacing; what better material could be devised for the new highways the governor spoke of? Of course, since wood was scarce on Zur, it was no competition for either tile or concrete. In the matter of material progress, we must expect some strain in the fabric of our culture. Machinery has been set up to deal with it.
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