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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 20, May 13, 2001, Article 8

MONEY MOVEMENTS 

   Tom Fort writes: "A couple of times this newsletter has 
   featured or discussed the site "Where's George?" which 
   is attempting to track the progress of one dollar bills 
   across the United States.  The movement of paper money 
   across the United States was a key plot point in the Doc 
   Savage novel  "Terror Wears No Shoes" which I finished 
   reading last weekend 

   The plot of this novel, originally published in 1948, revolves 
   around an attempt by the Soviets to introduce a deadly virus 
   into the United States.  Since the Russians do not want to be 
   caught and bring swift and violent American retaliation, their 
   plan is to smuggle the virus into the States by lacing US 
   currency and distributing it to unsuspecting communist 
   sympathizers who in turn will spend it. The inflected cash is 
   kept in small plastic packets so the KGB people do not 
   catch the disease. 

   Part of the Soviet plan is to track the spread of the virus; 
   this of course, would also mean that they are tracking the 
   circulation of the currency.  Of course, Doc and his aides 
   uncover the scheme and make the world safe for democracy. 
   However, it is good to see that much safer ways of following 
   the movement of money have been thought of since the end 
   of the Cold War. 

   [Footnote:  For the uninitiated, Doc Savage is a pulp hero 
   whose magazine ran from 1933 to 1949, a total of 181 issues. 
   These were reprinted by Bantam Books from 1964 through 
   1990. Doc had an enormous effect on American popular 
   culture, his greatest influence being Superman - who first 
   appeared in 1938 (Doc is known as the Man of Bronze 
   because of his skin and hair color, Superman is the Man of 
   Steel;   Doc's first name is Clark, as is Superman's;  Doc 
   has a Fortress of Solitude in the arctic as does Superman, 
   the list goes on...).  If you want to know more about Doc 
   there are two good web sites: 

   The 86th Floor: 
      http://members.aol.com/86thfloor 

   Doc Savage Unchained: 
      http://users.aol.com/jsines233/private/DocSavage.htm.  ]" 

   [Editor's note:  The address for "Where's George" is 
    http://www.wheresgeorge.com/.   There is now a 
    companion site for Canadians called "Where's Willy" 
    at   this address :  http://www.whereswilly.com/ 
    Quiz question:  Who's Willy?"  ] 

   [Editor's Note #2:  I haven't read the novels, but 
   figure Doc must have had kids - hence the need 
   for a Fortress of Solitude ...] 

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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