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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Midnite Sun Matter (EP1669) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: But now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Dollar. The original airdate is May the twenty fifth
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen fifty eight and the title is The Midnight
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  Speaker 1: Sun Matter from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: It's time now for.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar, Bill Chadwick, Honey Bell, Howry Things in Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not bad, Johnny, not bad. You kill me?
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  Speaker 5: You have a fallen for the spill of the Yukon.
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  Speaker 4: What are you trying to do? Sell me some mining stock? No,
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  Speaker 4: but there's a mine.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to have you take a look at prop
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  Speaker 3: of the Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually it's.
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  Speaker 6: Across the border and Alaska. It's a gold mine.
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  Speaker 5: A big one sitting on top of a rich vein.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you fly on out here let me tell.
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  Speaker 4: You about it. Why not? Shall I bring my own
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  Speaker 4: pick and shovel?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, Johnny h just be sure you bring your gun.
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  Speaker 3: While Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
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  Speaker 3: the Action Packed Expensive God, America's Fabulous freelance insurance investigator
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  Speaker 3: of Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, no act one of yours, Truly,
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts of itted by a special investigator
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar to the Northwest Shorety Company, Seattle, Washington office
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  Speaker 3: following us an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
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  Speaker 3: of the Midnight Sun matter. I don't one one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and sixty four to thirty five transportation to New York,
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  Speaker 3: then a mainliner through Chicago to Seattle, the pilot gave
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  Speaker 3: us a beautiful view of Mond Rainier and Puget Sound
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  Speaker 3: before we sat down. And at four pm I was
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  Speaker 3: in Bill Chadwick's office at Second Avenue in Yesler Way.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad to see you, Johnny. It's been a long time. Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you sit out?
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: How what was that crack over the phone about bringing
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  Speaker 3: along a gun?
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  Speaker 7: Hell?
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  Speaker 4: The men who moil for gold.
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  Speaker 3: Are a pretty tough bunch, Johnny. And sometimes it even
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  Speaker 3: goes for the management of a big mining operation like what,
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  Speaker 3: for instance, like Universal Consolidated Mining Corporation. Where's that It's
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  Speaker 3: north and east of Fairbanks, Alaska, Yes, even north of
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  Speaker 3: fort Yukon.
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  Speaker 4: That means above the Arctic Circle.
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  Speaker 3: And what's happened up there? The whole thing sits at
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  Speaker 3: the foot of a big glacier. Oh, no problem. Until recently, now,
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  Speaker 3: through some freak of nature, that glacier is changing its course.
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  Speaker 4: No kidding.
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  Speaker 3: And from the look of things, maybe a couple of months,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a couple of years, or even ten years. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 3: they seem to think that glacier is going to sweep
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  Speaker 3: down over the mines, the town, everything I see, in
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  Speaker 3: which case our company would have to pay for the
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  Speaker 3: whole loss and all coverage policy. Huh yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 3: occurred to me, Johnny. Suppose they've suddenly run out of
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  Speaker 3: that rich vein they found up there. You mean it's
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  Speaker 3: somehow they deliberately caused that glacier to destroy the whole operation.
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  Speaker 4: It's a possibility, isn't it.
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Pretty far fetch one. If you asked me change the course.
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  Speaker 3: Of a glacier, a few sticks of dynamite carefully place.
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  Speaker 4: Come off at phil did you ever see a glacier?
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  Speaker 3: Well, why should one that's been following the same path
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  Speaker 3: for thousands of years suddenly decide the head for a
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  Speaker 3: few million dollars worth of well insured property?
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  Speaker 6: And look?
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  Speaker 4: Go up there and take a look, will you? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: how do I get there?
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  Speaker 3: One of the company's planes is taking off from here
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow morning. They have their own airplanes, Oh sure, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of them, big two engine speedcraft transports.
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  Speaker 4: How else do you think they get mendon supplies up there? Anyway?
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  Speaker 4: You can go along with them? Okay, okay, why not?
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  Speaker 4: Who knows?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll strike it rich, come back loaded with nuggets.
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  Speaker 3: I am two thirty one bucks even for my room
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  Speaker 3: at the Benjamin Franklin and the Night on the Town
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  Speaker 3: the following morning, Well, I suppose I should have wondered
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  Speaker 3: why a big cargo plane should take off from a
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  Speaker 3: tiny airport far out of the town with only the pilot
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  Speaker 3: and me on board. Yeah, I should have wondered, back too,
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  Speaker 3: of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment, And.
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  Speaker 7: Now for another episode in the life of Sergeant Donald Bellweather,
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  Speaker 7: my husband.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, missus Bellweather.
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  Speaker 4: Would my lady prefer.
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  Speaker 6: To have her breakfast in bed this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? What a perfect husband.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you, darling.
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  Speaker 10: Ah, here's the tray with the coffee the toast, and
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  Speaker 10: they aren't.
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  Speaker 8: Oh fine, I forgot the orange juice.
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  Speaker 3: Hold the tray, an, I'll be right back, shoo doing
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  Speaker 3: what happened door in the corner of the dresser.
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  Speaker 7: All the National Safety cover was right. Last night. I
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  Speaker 7: read something in a National Safety Console pamphlet.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, reaba, how can you sit there talking about a
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  Speaker 10: pamphlet when I'm dying a slow.
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  Speaker 8: Tortures not come over, darling, I'm sorry, all right.
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  Speaker 10: Now, what's this about? The National Safety Council? Did they
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  Speaker 10: predict that would stubbed my.
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  Speaker 4: Toe this morning?
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  Speaker 6: It's just a coincidence.
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  Speaker 7: Only last night I read the statistics that proved that
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  Speaker 7: more home accidents occur in the bedroom. Of all places,
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  Speaker 7: em not the bathroom, or the kitchen or the home workshop.
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  Speaker 4: The bedroom.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, from now on, when I walk around the bedroom,
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  Speaker 10: I'm gonna wear my combat.
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  Speaker 8: Boots instead of these open toed chests.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that might help, dear, But what everyone should be
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  Speaker 7: most careful of is taking medicine in the darkness.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, my living safety encyclopedia. I will now.
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  Speaker 9: Fetch your orange, all your sweet And it's just too
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  Speaker 9: bad that you nice men are so prone to accidents
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  Speaker 9: in the home.
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  Speaker 7: And the reason is because you brave men usually tackle
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  Speaker 7: the hazardous jobs around the house.
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  Speaker 10: I'll remember those kind words as I slowly limped back.
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  Speaker 4: To the kitchen.
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  Speaker 7: One thing in your favor, though, sarge. Married men stand
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  Speaker 7: a better chance of avoiding fatal accidents in the home.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a friend you know?
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  Speaker 7: In one state, seventy five percent of the men involved
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  Speaker 7: in home mishaps were unmarried.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm sure glad I'm married.
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  Speaker 7: Because the accident odds are better.
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  Speaker 9: You know, because I like my wife even when she
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  Speaker 9: first wakes up in the morning. That's my Donald, that's
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  Speaker 9: my doll, and now act two of yours, truly. Johnny
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  Speaker 9: Dollar and the Midnight Sun met her a few minutes
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  Speaker 9: after I met him at the airport far east to town.
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  Speaker 9: The next morning, Cliff Murray had the big twin engines
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  Speaker 9: feedcraft airborne and we were heading north.
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  Speaker 4: To a lassa. And in case you're interested, Dollar, you're
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  Speaker 4: the cool pilot on this run. Oh are you kidding?
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  Speaker 4: The only things I've stayed around the sky since the
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  Speaker 4: war have been piper cubs, small jog You know nothing
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  Speaker 4: when you get onto them. These babies are not only
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  Speaker 4: just as easy to fly, but a whole lot safer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I want to take over for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Well maybe later. Hey, how come you didn't take this
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  Speaker 3: big ship off at this saddle to Come International Airport
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  Speaker 3: because of the cargo we.
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  Speaker 4: Have on board.
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  Speaker 3: Also, it was quicker and easier to get clearance. We're
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  Speaker 3: trying to make time on this trip. Boys up the
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  Speaker 3: mine are pretty worried bunch these days.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Why, that's a big glacier on one side of the
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  Speaker 4: property flows down to make the Kanakai River. When it
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  Speaker 4: gets warm enough a couple of months in the year
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  Speaker 4: to melt so that there's been a couple of big
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  Speaker 4: ice quakes this spring, just like earthquakes, only its ice.
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  Speaker 4: Now that glacier is heading for the property, No kidding,
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  Speaker 4: that's going to wipe out the airport, everything, unless they
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  Speaker 4: can do something about it, like what to the course
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  Speaker 4: of a glacier. The engineers up there say they can
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  Speaker 4: do it, and we've got the stuff for them right here,
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  Speaker 4: this cargo we're tooting. What do you mean quote, didn't
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  Speaker 4: you know? No?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 4: Why we got enough TNT aboard to move a dozen glaciers?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of sitting on a product keke and this
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  Speaker 3: one had wings. But then after the first shock of
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  Speaker 3: realization wore off.
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  Speaker 4: Well. I even took up.
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  Speaker 3: Cliffy on his offer to handle the controls for a while,
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  Speaker 3: and he was right. A big plane behaved like a
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  Speaker 3: doll by the time he reached anchorage to pick up
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  Speaker 3: mailand food, where I was all set to make the
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  Speaker 3: landing myself. However, with a cargo of TNT aboard, I
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  Speaker 3: was perfectly content to let cliffs.
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  Speaker 4: Set her down. What you did, beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Then within the hour we headed north again over some
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  Speaker 3: of the wildest country I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 4: Beautiful owd Johnny in its own way.
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  Speaker 3: And I never realized there were so many lakes and
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  Speaker 3: streams up in this country, Cliff.
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  Speaker 4: Most of them are loaded with cash too. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 4: it's up.
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  Speaker 8: Oh what is it?
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  Speaker 4: I said?
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  Speaker 3: The latest fishing in this man's world is right down there, blowes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh watch your language, brother, I'll able to strap on
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  Speaker 3: a chute and leave you to make the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the trip along.
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  Speaker 4: Fisherman. Huh, yeah, you aren't kidding. One of my favorite spots, right, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: what's the marry Well? I think just a little twitch
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  Speaker 4: in my side my belly. Doc said, was appendicida this
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  Speaker 4: last time, but he didn't want to operate in this.
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  Speaker 4: Holy baby, that was a shot. Won't Cliff anything I
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  Speaker 4: can do?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's going now, I sure, hope, so.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, Sure, just came on kind of sudden. So hey,
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  Speaker 4: it's time to call up glads at the mine to
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  Speaker 4: be ready for us. How big is the airport up there?
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  Speaker 4: Eleven thousand foot? Run me really sure? It's the only
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  Speaker 4: way to get stuff in for mines one hundred miles
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  Speaker 4: around speed draft two three one calling consolidated go ahead
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  Speaker 4: plays with somebody on duty there at all times. Twenty
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  Speaker 4: four go ahead, We're over Fairbanks.
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  Speaker 3: On the hour, Charley, Roderick, Cliff over Fairbanks and fourteen
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  Speaker 3: dollars and roll out the carpet.
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  Speaker 4: We'll sit down between fourteen forty five and fifty Roderick,
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  Speaker 4: We'll be ready for you. Yeah, and that's that and
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  Speaker 4: that's an hour, Johnny. We quick, Johnny, Johnny, take over, charclip.
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  Speaker 4: Never been this bad before. Now listen, Nope, you will say,
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  Speaker 4: no matter what happens, take it, take it easy. I'll
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  Speaker 4: tell you exactly what do you can do it? Johnny?
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  Speaker 3: You can do it now, listen, three of yours, truly, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: Dollar, in a moment, with your permission, There's something I'd
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  Speaker 4: like to talk about for a minute. You know, too
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  Speaker 4: many times people try to escape from their responsibilities by
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  Speaker 4: having someone else take them over. There was Miles Standish,
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  Speaker 4: for example. He was much too busy to ask Priscilla
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  Speaker 4: to marry him, so he sent John Alden to pop
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  Speaker 4: the question for him. You know what happened. John ended
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  Speaker 4: up marrying the girl himself. Of course, if John had
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  Speaker 4: had a face like a flat tire instead of being
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  Speaker 4: the handsome guy he was, maybe Miles Standish would have
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  Speaker 4: married Priscilla instead. Well, actually, I don't know what got
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  Speaker 4: me started on this subject, and unless it was my
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  Speaker 4: thinking about people who represent somebody else. Take our State Department,
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  Speaker 4: for example, being a representative is one of its biggest jobs.
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  Speaker 4: Through the Foreign Service, it helps the Justice and Treasury
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  Speaker 4: departments handle immigration, narcotic and quarantine problems, and the Secretaries
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  Speaker 4: of Agriculture and Commerce look to the Secretary of State
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  Speaker 4: to help keep their fingers on the pulse of foreign
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  Speaker 4: markets so they can keep the business firms and farmers
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  Speaker 4: of America informed on matters of import and exports. I
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  Speaker 4: guess the only connection between these facts and the courtship
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  Speaker 4: of Miles Standish is that, like John Olden, our State
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  Speaker 4: Department speaks for itself and now act three of yours, truly,
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  Speaker 4: Johnny Dollar and the Midnight Sun matter. The rest of
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  Speaker 4: this report will have to come to you from the
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  Speaker 4: records of the airport there at Universal Consolidated Mining Corporation,
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  Speaker 4: far above the Arctic Circle, aboard the big car playing
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  Speaker 4: a lot of with TNT, the pilot crippled with pain.
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  Speaker 4: I was a little too busy to make notes di
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  Speaker 4: scribble any fancy dialogue. Here, then, is the story as
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  Speaker 4: recorded at the tower of the airport.
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  Speaker 6: The time is till thirty five, all I goes.
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  Speaker 3: The boss is playing to pick up his dog in
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  Speaker 3: fad Banks. Charlie, Hey, Ball and Cliff, about do with
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  Speaker 3: two three one?
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  Speaker 2: And you said he'd sit down?
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  Speaker 4: It mean Graham three one probably consolidated?
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  Speaker 6: Is that, Cliffs?
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  Speaker 4: Mean Graham j three one probably consolidated?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like him.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Cliff, Hell, this is Johnny Dollar Dollar.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's just a passenger.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Johnny, Cliffs.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I had to.
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  Speaker 5: Take over for him.
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  Speaker 4: He's sick, looks cripple. Give me whatever insturtions I need,
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  Speaker 4: right you?
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  Speaker 3: You sure you can make it, Johnny, Charlie, Julie, Cliff,
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, Cliff, Johnny good week.
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  Speaker 2: Well what about that that cargo that TNK? Can you
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  Speaker 2: dump it?
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  Speaker 4: Hey?
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  Speaker 2: I can't dumping it.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny can't leave.
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  Speaker 3: The control Okay then, Johnny, Well, we'll give you all
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  Speaker 3: the help we.
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  Speaker 4: Can from here.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: Have you passed the Snake River marker in about two minutes?
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  Speaker 4: I think you?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Now, just remember your letdown is on a heading of
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  Speaker 3: zero three five degrees from that marker.
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  Speaker 5: They're all three five degrees from the snake rinder marker Roger.
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  Speaker 4: And well, now just take it easy, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get you down here.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, thanks, Charlie. All it looks like we may have
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  Speaker 4: a problem on it.
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  Speaker 6: And listen.
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  Speaker 3: If Cliff says Dollar can bring it, Donny can just
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  Speaker 3: you take it easy when you talk with it, Charlie.
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  Speaker 3: If you get an engineer own there, yeah, yeah, sure, Johnny,
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  Speaker 3: stand by, take a fall, Johnny.
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  Speaker 6: This is Paul Foster.
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  Speaker 7: Go ahead, Oh, make some trouble getting your landing gear down.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna make some steep bakes and try to get
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  Speaker 4: it down by a centrifical force. Yeah, I got you.
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  Speaker 4: You might get the ground for the stand by, though,
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  Speaker 4: because if we can't get the gear down that way,
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  Speaker 4: I guess we'll have to make a belly landing gear up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Johnny, I got that. How much fuel have you
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  Speaker 3: got on board about?
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  Speaker 2: Johnny? This is Charlie again.
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  Speaker 4: No list easy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Johnny, I saw you make your pants.
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  Speaker 3: It appears the landing gear door is partially open, which
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  Speaker 3: may indicate it's jammed. Any agasions, Uh, Paul again, Johnny.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing I can think of is try to
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  Speaker 3: snap the gear out by a sharp pull up to
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  Speaker 3: give it to centrifugal force.
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  Speaker 6: All right, then, before we consider you coming in for.
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  Speaker 3: A belly landing with all our TN t aboard, I'd
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  Speaker 3: like to use up some of that fuel. Maybe some
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  Speaker 3: of our brains down here can think of something that
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  Speaker 3: will help you out. Okay, Okay, We'll go ahead with
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  Speaker 3: the regular procedures and what where else we can think
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Then I'll give you another call.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Johnny, the time is kill or do you want Johnny? Johnny,
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  Speaker 6: this is Paul again. Have you tried to shear the
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  Speaker 6: lock pin on that landing gear? Go ahead itim, No,
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  Speaker 6: we haven't tried that yet.
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  Speaker 3: We want to make sure the doors were not jammed
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  Speaker 3: personally closed and perhaps making it possible to get all
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  Speaker 3: the gear up again, you know, if we do have to.
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  Speaker 2: Make a belly landing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Johnny, have you got full hydraulic pressure affirmative?
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  Speaker 6: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Now, the crew chief isn't up here at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll ask him to come up and he can
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  Speaker 3: discuss it with you, Johnny. If it does become necessary
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  Speaker 3: to make a belly landing because of the setup they
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  Speaker 3: have for handling accidents, you might be better off to
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  Speaker 3: do it at Fairbanks if you thought about that.
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  Speaker 2: I talk and click here.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't think they want us to try.
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  Speaker 4: It, whether it's we've got a board.
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  Speaker 3: Well where radio to them and see Meanwhile, if anybody
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  Speaker 3: comes up with any idea, ill, we'll pass it on to.
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  Speaker 4: You right away.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, okay. The time is.
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  Speaker 4: Till fifty.
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  Speaker 6: Johnny.
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  Speaker 3: Don Wilkins, our chief engineer, would like to talk to you.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I'll put him on the horn, Johnny is Don Wilkins.
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  Speaker 3: Have you tried the landing gear handle up and down
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  Speaker 3: quite a few times to see if it extends any
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  Speaker 3: further at any time? Here?
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  Speaker 2: We've treated it several times.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think I'd tried as many times as possible, Johnny.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: There could be something binding that may break loose. Now
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: there's something on it there. Well, it comes off the
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  Speaker 3: gear door latches all right, so it is the latch.
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  Speaker 2: I'll try it a few more times.
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  Speaker 6: The time is three eight o'clock exactly, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: This is Paul.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: How's your feel a situation stocking up? Now?
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Oh you have that nine nine fifty five.
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  Speaker 3: Well for your information, Fairbanks have advised that they can't
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  Speaker 3: take your airplane there because they're jammed up and couldn't
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  Speaker 3: play the field in time.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, doesn't look like we like we have
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: enough gears to go over.
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  Speaker 3: There anyway, Johnny, this is Don welcomes again. Right, if
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: you feather the number two engine and then just as
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: you unfeathered slamm the gear handled down, well, maybe the
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: additional torsion that you get may free to gear.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, Don, we've already tried that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: We came out negative. Right.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: I think we're stuck by that belly landing.
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  Speaker 6: Johnny, this is Paul.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get everything ready for you. Are you be at
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: far in this vicinity? You know under visual flight rules?
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, defermative.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny. There is one more thing we'd like to have
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: you try it, and that is completely unload your hydraulic
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  Speaker 3: system and then try free falling your landing gear.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: Did you get that?
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I did that twice?
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: Done?
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  Speaker 4: No luck with it? Go try it again, all right, Johnny.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Fine, the time is three twenty eight.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Johnny, we're going ahead with preparations for a belly landing
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: down here. I see you buzz the field a couple
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: of times, so you know how much room you've got?
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks like much you're up here. Now listen.
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  Speaker 6: We're gonna foam the runway for you. You let me
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: put foam on it.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: We're doing it now and that'll kill some of the friction,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: and if we can get knough on it'll help against fire.
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  Speaker 6: If you have any trouble.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: That's the window there.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: It sucked about three miles an hour. Just light braize.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Why was the dog if this thing shlines.
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  Speaker 4: Up at one side of the other, right, I don't
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: want to run down any of the other airplanes.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: I can fee down there, how.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: If we can help it?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Johnny, take a run directly over the run way
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  Speaker 3: and get the.
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  Speaker 4: Feel of it.
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  Speaker 3: Go do.
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  Speaker 1: The time is.
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  Speaker 6: Three thirty one, Johnny.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want to see him in the position here
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: of telling you all your business, but I guess we've
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: got to try everything anyone can think of.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: You go ahead on this gear handle business up and down.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Throw it in the up position and just leave it
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  Speaker 3: there for a second.
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  Speaker 6: And then slam it down.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I'll leave it down for oh.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Say, thirty seconds after you put it down.
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  Speaker 6: You get that, okay, we'll do that.
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  Speaker 8: Well.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: We hate to be giving you all this intelligence all
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: the time, but if anybody gets an idea, we pass
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: it on.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: To you for what it's worth. But you've got to
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: be the judge. Where glad with us?
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: The time is.
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  Speaker 4: Three forty six, Johnny, how's your fuel? Now? I wouldn't
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: make it a much longer. All right.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: They're laying foam on the runway like crazy, but that
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: poem is only going to last about twenty five minutes now,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: assuming they started laying the foam at thirty.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: You should land not later than fifty five. Yeah. Well, okay,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: you give us the word. When it's completed, we're going
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: to make one little past and take it good. Look
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: at everything they.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Will give it and land.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Okay, Roger, I got your remark.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: The time is three fifty one.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Hi, Johnny, I just wondered how you are and how
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: things look to you.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, you got a doctor stady by to take your cliff.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Sure, sure everything's ready for you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: One comment? Listen, do not repeat, Do not feather the
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: engines when you set down, okay, Johnny.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: Okay, we're all said.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Don we're gonna make a practice plant over the field
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: prior to the fine landing.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, Johnny, I won't be talking to you anymore. Paul,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: will take over on your approach and get you down.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: We have we're all sent for you when you arrived.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Good luck.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, the time is three fifty four.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: One minute forty eight seconds later we've made a wheels
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: up landing Cliff, the company doctor tells me has happened
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: to me was a complete success.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: A hard bitten bunch of miners.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Did you say, listen those boys up in that lonely
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: outs to the sawt of the earth, and as we're
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: trying to pull something on your insurance company, while you
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: should have seen how just one good load of TNT
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: put that glacier back on its course. Yes, sir, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: hope the vein of gold never runs out for those boys.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Expense account total, including gifts for the lads who really
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: brought that plane down, six hundred dollars even, yours, truly,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Johnny Dowe, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar is starrying Bob Bailey
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: origin Nates in Hollywood and is produced and directed by
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story. Heard in our
• 25:52
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• 25:59
  Speaker 3: next week, same time and stationed for another exciting story
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  Speaker 3: of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 1: This was a very interesting, someone experimental episode. You definitely,
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  Speaker 1: I definitely have to feel that the insurance company was
• 28:42
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  Speaker 1: I only wish we'd had more of the story dramatized.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: But still, the air traffic control scene was just very
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  Speaker 6: Well.
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