Explore "Islands in the Air" by Lowell Howard Morrow on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
IT WAS not long afterward that the location of our plant became known to the public. A strange plane, flying low, circled the field and took its own time getting away. People eagerly responded to its news. During the next week automobiles by the thousand braved the rocky trails leading to the plant, and folks by the hundreds peered curiously through the wire fence at the manifold and mysterious preparations to harness nature's mighty forces.
The newspapers of the entire country teemed with conjectures and declarations as wild and fantastic as the Professor's scheme itself.