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    You Too Can Be A Millionaire
    You Too Can Be A Millionaire
    You Too Can Be A Millionaire
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    You Too Can Be A Millionaire

    By Noel Miller Loomis

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      You Too Can Be A Millionaire - Noel Miller Loomis

      Project Gutenberg's You Too Can Be A Millionaire, by Noel Miller Loomis

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      Title: You Too Can Be A Millionaire

      Author: Noel Miller Loomis

      Release Date: June 20, 2010 [EBook #32907]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOU TOO CAN BE A MILLIONAIRE ***

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      YOU TOO CAN BE A MILLIONAIRE

      By Noel Loomis

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction November 1952. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Life had become a mad scramble for points.

      Money was worthless, yet no man dared go broke. It was all pretty confusing to Mark until Point-Plus-Pearlie told him—YOU TOO CAN BE A MILLIONAIRE

      Mark Renner looked anxiously backward as he ran up the street to the place where the faded gold lettering on one window said Jewelry. That would be a good place to hide, he thought. Most of the plate-glass windows and doors along the street were broken out as in fact they were everywhere, and had been for twenty years—but one of the jewelry windows and the door, protected by iron grating, were still whole and would help to conceal him.

      With one final glance back at the corner, he climbed the grating, scuttled across it, and dropped down. Then, keeping low, he ducked in among the dusty old counters and stopped abruptly, listening.

      He heard Conley's slow, slapping footsteps as the tall man rounded the corner and came up the street. He forced himself to breathe softly in spite of the pounding of his heart. The dust rose a little around him and got in his nostrils and he wanted to sneeze, but by sheer willpower he choked it down.

      Conley was from the Machine—Central Audit Bureau—and the Machine knew by now that Mark was three thousand points in the red. Three thousand points—when you were supposed to be always within one day's point of a balance. You were allowed twelve hundred points a day, so Mark was now two and a half days in debit.

      He'd been walking the streets in a sort of daze, signing slips right and left while his own

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