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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Big Tomorrow, by Paul Lohrman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Big Tomorrow Author: Paul Lohrman Illustrator: Sanford Kossin Release Date: September 8, 2009 [EBook #29931] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIG TOMORROW *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Illustrator: Sanford Kossin] THE BIG TOMORROW BY PAUL LOHRMAN _There are certain rare individuals in this world who seem bereft of all common sense. These are the people who set their eyes upon an objective and immediately all intelligence, logic, good advice, unsolvable problems, and insurmountable obstacles go completely by the boards. The characters we refer to are obviously just plain stupid. What they want to do, just can't be done. The objectives they have in mind are unachievable and anyone with an ounce of brains can tell them so and give them good reasons. They are usually pretty sad cases and often land in the funny house. But then again, some of them go out and discover new worlds._ He hadn't gotten any work done that morning. He'd spent most of the time pacing the floor of his small back office, and the rest of it at the window--hands clasped behind his somewhat bowed back--staring up into the cloudless sky. At ten-forty, the intercom buzzed. He snapped the switch. "Yes?" "I've got those figures, Mr. Lake. We have nine--" "Maybe you'd better come in and tell me personally, Lucy." "All right, Mr. Lake." The intercom snapped off and a few moments later a girl entered the office--if the prim little wisp that was Lucy Crane could be so generously classified. Joshua Lake stared at the elongated bun of black hair on the top of her head as she came toward his desk. There was an odd streak of rich imagination in Joshua Lake and he always felt Lucy Crane's bun was a symbol of disapproval. "Sit down, Lucy. You use up too much energy." "I try to do my job, Mr. Lake." "You do that--and more. What are the figures, Lucy?" "We're in des
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