Living on the Moon!

The earth, for all its breadth, has grown too narrow, and some Americans have taken to looking for dwellings for themselves on the planets!

Yes indeed. Ever since the invention of the atomic bomb, and the display of its prodigious power, and the talk that it will one day make communication with the planets possible, hundreds of letters have come pouring in upon the American government, in which the writers claim for themselves plots of land on the moon and inquire about the "procedures" to be followed in order to reserve those lands...