"The Chaser" by John Collier

Troops being rushed out to Vietnam by the truck loads, rise in foreign technology and more women workers all played a major for corporate America in the sixties. Businesses were now in a sudden and brutal competition for production. Weapons, planes, ships and other war gear were needed desperately across sea. Foreign competition was sneaking up on the once U.S. lead industrial world. Women were finding less and less housewives jobs and more and more full time employment options. Everyone needed their products and services sold and they needed them sold by yesterday. With such a big push on productivity and dollars earned, customers are pushed aside and thought of only as digits. …