New York's misfortune lasted three days!
Stark's chemical plant had scored an instant hit with its "Super Deodorant."
Orders from all over the world brought a small factory to life in an instant.
The stink bomb attack in New York had put every country on alert. Without a stockpile of "Super Deodorant," an attack like that could leave half a city paralyzed.
The stink bombs hadn't caused any casualties, but there was no denying their destructive power!
New York's financial center had been paralyzed for three days, and it might stay that way for a while longer, until people forgot that terrible smell and the city could come back to life.
Macy's Board of Directors announced that they would tear down the building entirely, so New Yorkers wouldn't be reminded of that awful smell whenever they saw it.
William Hurt, the Secretary of State who had been stationed in New York, had spent the night drafting treaties promising not to spread stink bombs and not to use them first. Then he rushed to Prison Island and begged and wheedled Alvin to sign them.
Alvin had some reservations about these two treaties, which were like jokes. They made him sound like some lunatic who might attack a city with stink bombs at any moment, and that really rubbed him the wrong way.
But William Hurt was a capable politician. He shamelessly begged and wheedled Alvin all morning, finally trading him more than a dozen advanced factories in Detroit for his promise.
That alone would expand Steel Digital's production department more than tenfold!
Alvin knew what William Hurt was up to. Giving him those factories, which had been shut down for ages, made it look like Alvin was getting the better deal, but it also gave more than ten thousand Detroit workers