[The Air Trust by George Allan England]@TWC D-Link bookThe Air Trust CHAPTER XXX 5/8
On both sides of the river this huge monster had squatted, effectually shutting out all sight of the Falls and depriving the people of their birthright of beauty, at the same time that it had harnessed the vast waterpower to the task of enslaving the world. "From the Grand Trunk steel arch bridge up to and including the former plant of the Niagara Falls Power Company," said Brevard, "you see the plant extends.
And, on the Canadian side--or what was the Canadian, before 'we' absorbed Canada--it stretches from the Ontario Power Company's works to those of the Toronto-Niagara Power Company, including both.
In addition to having absorbed these, it has taken over the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company, the Canadian Power Company and half a dozen others, and has, as you see, established its central offices and plant on Goat Island. "Here Flint and Waldron have what may be called a citadel within a citadel--twelve acres of administration buildings, laboratories (in charge of your old friend Herzog, by the way!) and experimental works, including also the big steel chambers, vacuum-lined, where they are already storing their liquid oxygen to be turned into their pipe-lines and tank-cars.
This Goat Island central plant will be the real kernel in the nut, Gabriel.
Once _that_ is gone, you'll have ripped the heart out of the beast, smashed the vital ganglia, and given the world the respite, the breathing-space it must have, to free itself!" "And if I don't ?" asked Gabriel.
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