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But to many people the dream is a nightmare. They
dread the sonic booms the supersonic transport planes
would produce， and estimate mat me some uooms wouta
startle hundreds of millions of people each day and dam-
age at least a million houses a week. They expect that
such planes would be dangerous and almost prohibitively
expensive. They believe that widespread use of the
planes would hurt， rather than help， the balance of pay-
ments， and they are convinced that the project as a whole
would be a financial failure and would leave the tax-
payers out-of-pocket to the tune of about $5 billion.
Here in the U.S.A. where there is as yet no supersonic
transport plane but only a mass of drawings and reports
prepared by Boeing Company and associated manufac-
turers， the issue is a simple one: Should our Government
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