"Daily reports from your group. Daily conferences with your legal department. These reports should be prepared prior to the day's work so that I may discuss with the legal department the right of Terran Electric to permit or to disapprove the acts." "You understand that there may be a lot of times when something discovered at ten o'clock may change the entire program by ten oh six?" "That may be," said Kingman, "but my original statements must be adhered to, otherwise I am authorized to remove the devices from your possession. I will go this far, however; if you discover something that will change your program for the day, I will then call an immediate conference which should hurry your program instead of waiting until the following morning for the decision." "Thanks," said Channing dryly. "First, may we take X-ray prints of the devices?" "No. Terran Electric will furnish you with blueprints which we consider suitable." Kingman paused for a moment. "I shall expect the complete program of tomorrow's experiments by five o'clock this evening." Kingman left, and Wes Farrell smiled uncertainly. "Shall we begin making the list?" "Might as well," said Channing. "But, how do you lay out a complete experimental program for twelve hours ahead?" "It's a new one on me, too," said Farrell. "Well, come on. I'll get Walt Franks, and we'll begin." "I wonder if it might not be desirable for Kingman to sit in on these program-settings?" said Channing, after a moment of staring at the page before him. "I suggested that to him. He said 'No'. He prefers his information in writing." Walt came in on the last words. Channing brought Franks up to date and Walt said: "But why would he want a written program if he's going to disallow certain ideas?" "Sounds to me like he's perfectly willing to let us suggest certain lines of endeavor; he may decide that they look good enough to have the Terran Electric labs try themselves," said Channing. Wes Farrell looked uncomfortable. "I have half a notion to toss him out," Channing told Farrell. "I also have half a notion to make miniatures of this tube and go ahead and work regardless of Kingman or Terran Electric. O.K., Wes, we won't do anything illegal. We'll begin by making our list." "What is your intention?" asked Wes. "We hope that these tubes will enable us to detect driver radiation, which will ultimately permit us to open ship-to-ship two-way communication." "May I ask how you hope to do this?" "Sure. We're going to cut and try. No one knows a thing about the level of driver-energy; we've assigned a selected name for it: Subelectronics. The driver tube is akin to this transmission tube, if what I've been able to collect on the subject is authentic. By using the transmission tube--" "Your belief is interesting. I've failed to see any connection between our tube and the driver tube."