"Curtis Steele - Operator 5 - 3405 - The Invisible Empire" - читать интересную книгу автора (Steele Curtis)

CHOOSE!
Over all of Manhattan, the flurry of warnings
settled. A few moments later another cloud of
leaflets drifted down upon Long Island. Then a
third fluttering mass spread in the sky above the
millions crowding toward the great Naval air field
at Lakehurst, New Jersey, bringing with it sudden
gloom and the chill of terror.
Every road leading to the famous airport was
choked with thousands of cars. Automobiles were
sardined into every available space along the
highways. For hours no wheel had turned. A
swarm of people had abandoned their immovable
vehicles and were herding on foot toward the
Naval air base.
Around the field the crush was indescribable
and unprecedented. An army of uniformed men-
police, infantry, marines-were keeping the
multitude behind the straining ropes framing the
tarmac. The doors of the giant hangar yawned
open and black. Another small army of men was
clustered on the field, clinging to ropes which
were binding to the earth the tremendous,
glistening, silver bag of the Navy's most recently
constructed dirigible.
The air was fogged with falling leaflets. They
dotted the shoulders of the packed multitude;
they whitened the field; they clung to the skin of
the dirigible.
For minutes the bits of paper continued to
snow down while the crowd stood hushed, while
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men peered at one another with fear and
consternation in their puzzled eyes.
Near the doors of the tremendous hangar a
radio announcer was speaking rapidly into a
microphone:
"And still the strange warnings flutter in the
air, ladies and gentlemen. Millions of them have
fallen. The police and infantrymen are trying to
calm the excited crowd. Overhead, Army and
Navy planes are circling, trying to discover the
source of the leaflets. We expect to have a report
from them shortly. We take you now-"