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The Air Trust

George Allan England (1877 - 1936)

A morphine-addicted billionaire, Isaac Flint, and his power-hungry partner, "Tiger" Waldron, are not sated with their vast wealth and plot world domination by controlling the world's oxygen supply through technological siphoning of the atmosphere. They'd sell the oxygen back, of course, for a premium, but make no mistake- they would cut off that oxygen for anyone who doesn't bow to them.

In their way stands a socialist worker, Gabriel, who uncovers the plot and seeks to stop them. The billionaire's daughter, Catherine Flint, through a chance encounter with Gabriel, becomes entangled with the affair, too.

Will plutocracy win out and enslave the human race, or will humanity throw off the shackles of those who would do so?
(Summary by Louis Noyes)

Genre(s): Science Fiction

Language: English

Keyword(s): suspense (116), socialism (65), speculative fiction (40), espionage (26), political thriller (4), billionaires (1), monopoly (1), capitalist (1)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Foreword Louis Noyes
00:03:20
Play 01 The Birth of An Idea Louis Noyes
00:12:10
Play 02 The Partners Louis Noyes
00:10:30
Play 03 The Baiting of Herzog Louis Noyes
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Play 04 An Interloper Louis Noyes
00:21:42
Play 05 In The Laboratory Louis Noyes
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Play 06 Oxygen, King of Intoxicators Louis Noyes
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Play 07 A Freak of Fate Louis Noyes
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Play 08 One Unbidden, Shares Great Secrets Louis Noyes
00:16:43
Play 09 Discharged Louis Noyes
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Play 10 A Glimpse of the Parasites Louis Noyes
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Play 11 The End of Two Games Louis Noyes
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Play 12 On the Great Highway Louis Noyes
00:15:17
Play 13 Catastrophe Louis Noyes
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Play 14 The Rescue Louis Noyes
00:12:30
Play 15 An Hour and A Parting Louis Noyes
00:28:19
Play 16 Tiger Waldron "Comes Back" Louis Noyes
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Play 17 Thoughts Louis Noyes
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Play 18 Flint and Waldron Plan Louis Noyes
00:14:57
Play 19 Catherine's Defiance Louis Noyes
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Play 20 The Billionaire's Plot Louis Noyes
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Play 21 Gabriel, Good Samaritan Louis Noyes
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Play 22 The Trap is Sprung Louis Noyes
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Play 23 The Beast Gloats Louis Noyes
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Play 24 Catherine's Supreme Decision Louis Noyes
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Play 25 Through Steel Bars Louis Noyes
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Play 26 "Guilty" Louis Noyes
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Play 27 Back in the Sunlight Louis Noyes
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Play 28 In the Refuge Louis Noyes
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Play 29 "Après Nous Le Déluge!" Louis Noyes
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Play 30 Trapped! Louis Noyes
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Play 31 Escape! Louis Noyes
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Play 32 Ominous Developments Louis Noyes
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Play 33 "Now Comes The Hour Supreme" Louis Noyes
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Play 34 The Attack Louis Noyes
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Play 35 Terror and Retreat Louis Noyes
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Play 36 The Storming of the Works Louis Noyes
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Play 37 Death in the Pit of Steel Louis Noyes
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Play 38 Visions Louis Noyes
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