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Title: Made in Tanganyika

Author: Carl Richard Jacobi

Release Date: June 25, 2009 [EBook #29242]

Language: English

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_Come, enjoy a Carl Jacobi field day--backed by his vivid,
irresistible imagination and his keen sense of fun. Or was it so
funny for Martin Sutter? For, unlike him, you'll surely be cautious
the next time you turn on your TV set--especially if you notice it
was made in Tanganyika._

made
in
tanganyika

_by ... Carl Jacobi_

See what happens when two conchologists get caught
in a necromantic nightmare of their own.

On his fortieth birthday Martin Sutter decided life was too short to
continue in the rut that had been his existence for more than twenty
years. He withdrew his savings from the Explosion City Third Federal
Bank, stopped in a display room and informed a somewhat surprised clerk
he was taking the electric runabout with the blue bonnet. The
ground-car, complete with extras, retailed for a tidy three thousand
credits.

To accustom himself to the car's controls Sutter chose Highway 56 for a
driving lesson. He tooled the electric runabout up into the third level,
purred out across state at an effortless two hundred, then descended via
a cloverleaf to ground tier and entered a maze of subsidiary roads that
led through the summer countryside.

In this manner he drove the major part of the afternoon. Travel was
light, away from the elevated lanes and he enjoyed himself.

At four o'clock he began to look for a convenient place to turn around.
It was then that he sighted the roadside stand ahead. Above it a freshly
painted sign read: TV SETS. LATEST MODELS. SPECIAL WHOLESALE PRICES!

Sutter smiled. Whoever heard of selling television sets on a country
highway? It was like--why, it was like selling eggs in the lobby of the
Hotel International! Then it occurred to him that his own TV set ha