Instant Gold by Frank O'Rourke

Author:Frank O'Rourke [O'Rourke, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi
Publisher: A Four Square Book
Published: 2013-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE HISTORY of civilization is studded with great moments and wonderful discoveries: fire, the wheel, type, Waterloo, nylons, Hiroshima, to name but a few. Each in turn shattered old concepts and brought forth new ways of life. Man shaped his destiny in strange and awful ways; and no recorded discovery, no moment, promised such far-reaching consequences as that November day on which Adrian Ericson sold the first can of instant gold. San Francisco (and California) became the focal center of the world. Recently adjudged the most populous state in the Union, a fact crowed over stentorianly by its able Governor, California was suddenly subjected to a latter-day gold rush. Airline flights were booked solid for weeks to come; ships closed upon San Francisco Harbor from all the seven seas; and state line inspection stations were swamped by a daily flood of some ten thousand emigrants roaring hell-bent over the Sierras into the promised land. Certain physical results were apparent to all: housing became critical, rentals nonexistent, and schools hopelessly overcrowded. Faintly through the mists of bounteous welfare, thoughtful eyes glimpsed the banners of Armageddon.

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