Prime Difference

Captain, for blast off, X minus 5, 4, 3, X minus 1, fire. Far horizons of the unknown come tales of new dimensions in time and space.

These are stories of the future. Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company presents minus one prime difference. But first it is.

This is Bill Goodwin. You know someone once said humor, is the true democracy. And that's why we Americans can smile when we tell the stories of the legendary heroes who help to build our country's great institutions and industries, like transcontinental transportation.

Ever hear wind waggin smith? In the early pioneering days, most of the traveling was done by Ox Team, and if folks covered 15 miles a day, they were doing good. That's about the time Wind Wagon Smith showed up with his prairie clipper.

The clipper was a wagon without any animals to pull it, but with a sail sticking up from the middle of the wagon. When the wind caught the sail, the wagon took off. And that's where Wind Wagon Smith got his name.

He figured he might be able to cover as much as 70 miles a day with the clipper, and folks This began to figure it might be a good thing when Windwagon pointed out how fast the country was growing and how more transportation was needed to haul people and goods.

Then he invited the United States Secretaries of War and the Navy to ride on the Clippers' maiden voyage. But disaster struck. The Clipper got out of control, the Secretary of War rolled out, and the Secretary of the Navy landed in a cactus patch.