Man Abroad (Esprios Classics)

The private secretary withdrew. The President sat down at a walnut desk and opened a map of the Moon on which the volume and value of that satellite's principal products were illustrated in a colored chart while on the representation of the moon's surface itself corresponding colors indicated the regions producing the staples mentioned in the chart. The Moon had just applied for a commercial treaty with the United States and the question demanded of the President the gravest consideration in the light of the productive capacity of the territories under American control.