It the midst of McCarthyism, Dick wrote this story about an accidental travel through time to the 1950s by a swibble repairman, whereupon Mr. Courtland and his colleagues pry information out of the repairman about exactly what a swibble is and how it has stopped all war.
—remember the swibble slogan: Why be half loyal?

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  1. “Service Call” by Philip K. Dick, Science Fiction Stories, July 1955.
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