Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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From this random suggestion, there sprang up a major interplanetary project. If the big soap companies are wondering where all that soap It went to Mars. But several questions popped into the minds of the Mafia soap salesman. Where was it all going? A Martian, in line for a bar in the evening, Here you'll learn why Mars is called the Red Planet, the part the Mafia plays in her undoing, the rape and rapine Universe. In other words, this is Mars—Confidential! killed?" Struck with the novelty of the thing, quite a few Martians remember other Martians they are mad at. The going price is one hundred carats of diamonds to kill which is cheap considering the average laborer But Mars was our toughest task of spectroscoping. The cab drivers Then the boys from the more dignified end of the business drop in at the home of the victim and offer to bury him cheap. Two hundred and fifty carats gets a Martian planted in style. By the time we went through Mars—its canals, its caves, its Mars is presently no problem to Earth, and will not be until we have all its gold and the Martians begin asking us for loans. Meanwhile, Lait and Mortimer say let the gangsters and communists have it. We don't want it. the UP (United Planets) and call upon the governments of Earth not to join that Inter-Solar System boondoggle. However, after the sojourner lands, he discovers that Mars is not much ground. Also used for cock-fights. Spacemen : Those who man the space ships. See any comic strip. Hairoscope how did they get to Venus to get the hair from the with white-walled tires and yellow-haired frails. For the Mafia, the of Crime and Vice, nor the Un-Martian Activities Committee, can dent we just knew he came from Mars. Shortly after the end of World War II, a syndicate composed of underworld big-shots from Chicago, Detroit and Greenpoint planned to necessary first step to interplanetary travel. Mars Confidential proves the fallacy of this theory. Space Academy There was to be service by a private airline. It would be so ultra-ultra that suckers with only a million would be thumbed away and served apprenticeships as elevator jockeys. The Mafia sent a couple of front men to explore the desert. Somewhere Asteroids : Tiny worlds floating around in space, put there guys with two million would have to come in through the back door. spacemen. The student body consists mainly of cadets who : A college where young men are trained to be Terrans, bems are natives of Mars. In science-fiction yarns : The source from which power is derived to carry men to the stars. Optional on the more expensive space ships, at extra cost. "This is a space ship and we are headed for Mars." "What's Mars?" "A planet up in space, loaded with gold and diamonds." The Crime Cartel met in Cleveland—in the third floor front of a Mars. Mars Los Angeles mob Hyperdrive : The motor that is used to drive a space ship faster than the speed of light. Invented by science-fiction writers but not yet patented. major and minor mobs were declared in as partners. The first problem to be ironed out was how to speed up transportation and failing that, to construct spacious space ships which would attract pleasure-bent trade from Terra —Earth to you—with such Only chumps bring babes with them to Mars. The temperature is a little colder there than on Earth and the air a little thinner. So Terra dames complain one mink coat doesn't keep them warm The visiting Mafia delegation was naturally disappointed at this state the keenest linguist, if the keenest linguist ever gets to Mars. However, the Mafia, which is a world-wide blood brotherhood with Martians in for a fifty-fifty partnership, which means they actually gave them one per cent, which is generous at that. Never having had the great advantages of a New Deal, the Martians are before they became extinct here. The Mafistas quickly set the Martians right about the futility of gold. They eagerly turned it over to the Earthmen in exchange for green certificates with pretty pictures engraved thereon. who ain't a crook, and why should Mars be any different?" The first Earthman to be eliminated on Mars was a two-bit hood from North Clark Street who sold a five-cent Hershey bar with almonds to a Martian for a gold piece worth 94 bucks. The man from Mars bit the candy bar. The hood bit the gold piece. That is how the crime trust found out that there is no sugar on Mars They further discovered that the chief source of Martian diet So the Mafia was in business. The Martians sniffed granulated sugar, There was nothing they would not do for a pinch of sugar. Gold, platinum and diamonds, narcotics by the acre—these were to be had in generous exchange for sugar—which was selling on Earth at a nickel or so a pound wholesale. The space ship went into shuttle service. A load of diamonds and dope coming back, a load of sugar and blondes going up. Blondes made Martians higher even than sugar, and brought larger and quicker space ship loads of precious stones are now being cut in a cellar on Bleecker Street in New York. The mob plans to retail them for $25 a carat! Though the gangsters are buying sugar at a few cents a pound here and selling it for its weight in rubies on Mars, a hood is always a hood. They've been cutting dope with sugar for years on Earth, so they didn't know how to do it any different on Mars. What to cut the sugar with on Mars? Simple. With heroin, of course, which is worthless corrupt the border guards, which was easy with Annie Oakleys to do the burlesque shows. The selling price for faked passports fluctuates between a ton and just off a cow farm. This proved embarrassing, to say the least, to the procurers. Considerable sums of money were invested in this human cargo, and the boys feared dire consequences from their shylocks, should they return empty-handed. In our other Confidential essays we told you how the Mafia employs part for the delay in putting it on the market down here) and ship it to Mars to deodorize the populace there. After which the ladies of the evening got off their feet and went back to work. GAMBLING : Until the arrival of the Mafia, gambling on Mars was The Mafia brought up some fine gambling equipment, including the support life lavishly, though why Martians want to live after they For this reason Martian cities are built underground, and travel and a Mars express, yet the latter were built before the Pyramids. When the first load of Black Handers arrived, they naturally balked against living underground. It reminded them too much of the days So the Mafia put the Martians to work building a town. There are no building materials on the planet, but the Martians are adept at making gold dust hold together with diamond rivets. The result of their effort—for which they were paid in peppermint sticks and lump Until the arrival of the Earthmen, the Martians were, as stated, Chocolate bars are as common on Mars as saloons are on Broadway, and The gangsters had not been on Mars long before they heard rumors about apparatus sent to Mars from Soviet Russia. planet before the arrival of the Mafia, with their domain extending the four Martian governments were either secretly party members or On Earth, Russia floods the Western powers, and especially the United States, with narcotics, first to weaken them and provide easy prey, and second, for dollar exchange. And on Earth, the Mafia, which is another international conspiracy like the Communists, sells the narcotics. And so when the gangsters heard there were Communist cells on Mars, they quickly made a contact. As a result, the Mafia and its allies control thousands of legitimate And so it was on Mars. With all the rackets cornered, the gangsters

<question>:
How did the Mafia come to be in business on Mars?

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A By making a deal with Russia
B By infiltrating the government
C By accidentally finding a spaceship
D By bribing a spaceship company

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C