We landed in a large open parking ground where Mr. Amony was waiting for us. As he guided us into a large building, he said, "I am surprised you Earth men don't go in for similar manufacturing and improvements and reforms. They have the idea, which we hope will soon be also in operation. Look!" Meeting our sight was a "Factory as clean, spacious, and continuously operating as hydro-electric plant. The production floor is barren of men. Only a few engineers, technicians, and operators walk about on a balcony above, before a great wall of master control panels, inserting and checking records, watching and adjusting batteries of control instruments. All else is automatic. Raw materials flow in by conveyor, move through automatic inspection units, fabricating machines, sub-assembly and assembly lines, all controlled from the master panels, and arrive at the automatic packaging machines a finished product."[19] "We have machines that see better than eyes, calculate more reliably than brains, communicate faster and farther than the voice, record more accurately than memory, and act faster and better than hands. These devices are not subject to any human limitations. They do not mind working around the clock. They never feel hunger or fatigue. They are always satisfied with working conditions."[20] Now Xora interrupted, "I need a garment which is in the store building of No. 1 east. Let us go there." I found this store impressive. Mr. Amony explained that the other ninety-nine stores were of similar size, but carried different articles. They received, stored, delivered, and distributed all foods and merchandise and other necessities and luxuries for all the inhabitants of Amboria. These buildings were sixty stories high. The first ten stories in each of these hundred buildings were used for shopping, display, individual ordering, and disposing of merchandise to shoppers. Each floor had its own exclusive kind of merchandise. Going up the moving stairway to the first floor, we landed in front of a slowly moving, large, circular inside platform twenty-five feet wide, which went on the floor around the full size of the building. On both sides of this platform were plush rope rails with many openings and provided with comfortable seats. An attendant at each opening helped people off and on. Alongside this moving platform was a stationary floor of twenty-five feet in width for walkers. We sat on a seat for three on the moving platform, and were taken around to see the beautiful displays on dummies and on beautiful living models. Each side of the floor showed its own special variety of displays. My feeling was that the ladies on Mars were no different from ours insofar as feminine finery was concerned.