Joe Gordon was a vice-president at Princess Erika Miracles, Incorporated, the huge cosmetics firm. Over the years, the company had expanded its interests, beginning as a firm that manufactured its own line of facial makeup. In time, it devoured the hair coloring industries. The hair products spectrum seemed to be endless and Princess Erika hired the best lab people, offering prizes and spectacular profit-sharing plans for those who could invent new and better processes and turn them over to Princess Erika.
Now they had a stranglehold on the entire feminine needs market. It was Princess Erika who was first with the delicately scented and deodorized sanitary napkin. It was the same company who poured millions into the research that eventually produced the Pill. Several of the raw drug compa
