TY - ABST T1 - “The Morning of the Day They Did It” Y1 - 1950 A1 - E[lwyn] B[rooks] White (1899-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the complete destruction of Earth, but it includes a paragraph the describes the United States government as providing all an individual’s needs, while taking all but a very small part of their pay. It also notes in passing the disappearance of all but one bird species and other problems.

JF - The New Yorker N1 -

Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 322-33.

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