or a while, until the Calamity affected wire communications, too, we received telephone comments from our audience.
A few people complained about the confusion, but most asked us to turn off the music and let the voices come through clearly.
One of the listeners said to us, "I haven't heard men speak their minds so plainly since the morning Grandma wrecked Grandpa's new helicopter."
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y name is Wilson. I manned the remote control panel for the Duplicator Construction Company.
As you know, we directed a battery of building machines which erected mass housing projects. I directed only the destination of our machines. Once I sent them to a site, they completed their work automatically with the materials installed at our supply depot.
A single machine could prepare a site and erect a complete house in one day. With an army of 5,000 machines, our firm had succeeded in building as many houses as there was room for, and we had started on the demolition of our original buildings for replacement with the modern economy-size model. This made room for three families where one had lived before. We started this replacement program the week before the Calamity.