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Nick Carter, Master Detective - "The Case of the Chemical Chickens" (1947) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: When Waldo McGlynn's breakfast eggs produce a chemical clue, Nick
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  Speaker 1: Carter follows the lead from a neighborhood grocery into the
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  Speaker 1: country where farming and industry meet. From April 13th, 1947,
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  Speaker 1: it is Nick Carter, Master Detective, Episode 283, The Case
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  Speaker 1: of the Chemical Chickens. Lon Clark stars as Carter, with
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte Manson as his secretary, Patsy Bowen. Together with Waldo,
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  Speaker 1: they pursue a case involving impersonation and physical evidence. The
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  Speaker 1: script is by Alfred Bester. later known to readers for
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  Speaker 1: his science fiction novels, and the broadcast came to Mutual
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  Speaker 1: under producer-director Jock McGregor. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents Nick Carter,
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  Speaker 2: famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time, two
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  Speaker 2: great names are joined as Old Dutch Cleanser brings you
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  Speaker 2: one of the most resourceful and daring characters in all
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  Speaker 2: detective fiction. Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter with those eggs Waldo had for breakfast, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: They had nitroglycerin in them.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 3: Someone put nitroglycerin in the eggs?
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  Speaker 4: No. What?
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  Speaker 3: Then how'd it get in?
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  Speaker 4: The chickens that laid these eggs put the explosive in.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 4: The eggs were laid by chemical chickens. And now the
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  Speaker 4: case of the chemical chickens.
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  Speaker 2: Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by Old
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  Speaker 2: Dutch Cleanser. In Nick's office, he and Patsy are busy
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  Speaker 2: with the morning reports.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, take this letter, Patsy.
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  Speaker 6: Right, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: To Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Jason Griggs. Dear sir, enclosed you will find a photograph...
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  Speaker 7: Taken on infrared film. Proving the will in question.
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  Speaker 5: Nick Boy, Nick Boy, I've been poisoned.
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  Speaker 8: If you don't save me, I'm a dead man.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Walter, look, we're too busy for practical jokes.
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  Speaker 5: Nick Boy, I'm feeling fast.
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  Speaker 8: If you don't find me an antidote, I'll be dead
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  Speaker 8: in two minutes.
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  Speaker 3: What have you got in that bowl?
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  Speaker 8: Eggs.
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  Speaker 5: Poisoned eggs. And I ate one of them.
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  Speaker 4: Are you kidding, Waldo?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, Nick.
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  Speaker 8: Some criminals have poisoned these eggs I was having for
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  Speaker 8: my breakfast. They're after me, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: No nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: They've been poisoned, Nick. Smell of them here.
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  Speaker 4: All right. By George. Sit down, Waldo.
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  Speaker 5: Sit down. Is it too late, Nick?
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  Speaker 7: No, you're not dying, if that's what you mean. I
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  Speaker 7: have to make a chemical analysis to be sure. But
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  Speaker 7: you may have stumbled onto something, Waldo.
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  Speaker 3: Find anything, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: Not sure yet.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Patsy, get your pad.
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  Speaker 8: This is the last will and testament of Waldo Aloysius McGlynn,
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  Speaker 8: who departs.
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  Speaker 5: This world foully murdered by his enemies. Quiet, Waldo.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't been poisoned. Then what's in them eggs? Nitroglycerin.
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  Speaker 3: The explosive?
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  Speaker 5: I had dynamite for me breakfast.
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  Speaker 4: In minute quantities, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Someone put nitroglycerin in the eggs?
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  Speaker 4: No, the chickens that laid these eggs put it in.
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  Speaker 3: Nick, are you joking?
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  Speaker 9: I'm not.
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  Speaker 7: These eggs were laid by chemical chickens. And nitro isn't
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  Speaker 7: a thing that chickens can pick up anywhere. I think
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  Speaker 7: I'll look into this.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think's going on, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: Can't tell you, but here's what we'll do.
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  Speaker 7: We'll all go to the store where Waldo's landlady bought
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  Speaker 7: these eggs. We'll each buy as many as we can
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  Speaker 7: carry and bring them back here and test them.
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  Speaker 4: Who knows? Maybe we'll find crooks in our omelet. The End.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the place, Nick. Bleak as grossly.
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  Speaker 7: Now, those eggs were large brown eggs. Go in separately
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  Speaker 7: and order five dozen each. I'll go first, Waldo next,
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  Speaker 7: Patsy last, right?
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'm going in now. Follow me after a
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  Speaker 4: few minutes, Waldo.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, bud, how many dozen eggs you here for?
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  Speaker 4: About five. Five dozen eggs at a buck a dozen.
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  Speaker 4: Here's your dough, five bucks. Hey, what's this for? It's
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  Speaker 4: the payoff, but I'm shelling out for the bum eggs
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  Speaker 4: I sold this morning.
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  Speaker 11: I beg your pardon, sir. I'm Janet Steele, pure food
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  Speaker 11: inspector for the health department. If you'd like to.
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  Speaker 9: Register a complaint about the eggs sold by this man.
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  Speaker 4: Have a heart, lady. I'm handing this customer a five-buck bill.
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  Speaker 12: What more do you want?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, you don't understand. I didn't buy any eggs
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  Speaker 7: this morning. I want to buy five dozen now.
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  Speaker 4: Ha-ha, I'm laughing.
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  Speaker 2: This dame already confiscated every egg in a joint.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, folks.
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  Speaker 4: Just dropped in to purchase a little hen fruit.
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  Speaker 9: No eggs in this store will be sold.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, mister. No eggs.
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  Speaker 5: No eggs? You got boxes of them back there.
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  Speaker 9: I've condemned every one of them.
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  Speaker 4: Looks as if we'll have to try some other place,
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  Speaker 4: my friend.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but why can't we get some of these here?
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  Speaker 3: Say, Nick, what in the.
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  Speaker 5: Quiet.
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  Speaker 4: We couldn't buy any eggs. Let's get away from the
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  Speaker 4: store window. I want to go around. Take a look
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  Speaker 4: in back of the store.
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  Speaker 3: What's this all about, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: Looks like a phony setup, Betsy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure the man in there isn't Bleeker. Unless I
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  Speaker 7: missed my guess, he's.
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  Speaker 4: A crook posing as Bleeker.
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  Speaker 5: What makes you think so, Nick?
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  Speaker 7: First place, the way he talked. Second place, by the
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  Speaker 7: money he offered me. I only got a quick look,
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  Speaker 7: but that $ 5 bill he offered me looked phony.
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  Speaker 3: Is this a counterfeiting case?
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  Speaker 4: It's worse.
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  Speaker 7: I'll explain in a few minutes. Right now, I want
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  Speaker 7: to see what's happened to the real Bleeker.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see.
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  Speaker 7: Regular suburban back alley. Garage behind the store. And here's
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  Speaker 7: the cellar entrance to the store. I think we'd better
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  Speaker 7: duck down into the cellar and look around. Get that
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  Speaker 7: door open, Waldo.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: Patsy, take a look in the garage. There's a place safe.
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  Speaker 3: Right away, Nick.
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  Speaker 5: This is a heavy door, Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Quiet.
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  Speaker 4: I'll give you a hand.
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  Speaker 8: Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 9: Come here quick.
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  Speaker 3: Look what I found in the garage.
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  Speaker 5: Holy smokes. It's a man all tied up and gagged.
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  Speaker 4: That would be bleaker. Help me get these ropes off, Waldo.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure. Take off the gag, Patsy.
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  Speaker 3: Golly, I don't think he's breathing.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe he's dead.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, he's still warm.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank heavens, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: Quick, Waldo. Try artificial respiration. Yeah. One chance in a thousand,
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  Speaker 4: we can save him. All right, Nick. Listen, Patsy. We're
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  Speaker 4: in a spot.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I've got to call Matty for an ambulance and pull
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  Speaker 7: motor at once to give this man a chance. But
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  Speaker 7: when an ambulance arrives, the crook inside the store is
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  Speaker 7: going to catch on. You've got to help me.
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  Speaker 5: How?
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  Speaker 4: Take off your hat. Comb your hair into bangs. Make
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  Speaker 4: your face up heavily with plenty of lipstick.
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  Speaker 3: Disguise myself as a tough, in other words.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 7: That thug in there hasn't seen you yet. So you
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  Speaker 7: can get away with it. Go into the store and
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  Speaker 7: get him out of there. Get him out by hook
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  Speaker 7: or crook and stay with him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, trust me, Nick. I'll do it if I have
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  Speaker 3: to sing torch songs.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look, Nick, I'm pretty sore about this. What's the
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  Speaker 2: idea of letting that mug in the grocery store get away?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't let him, Matty. Patsy took him away.
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  Speaker 2: Do you realize if we can't bring Bleeker to, it's
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  Speaker 2: a murder rap?
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  Speaker 4: It's more than just a murder rap, Matty. Well, how
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  Speaker 4: are they doing with the pole motor, Waldo?
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  Speaker 5: No luck yet, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: Nick, what's all this about poisoned eggs? Very simple.
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  Speaker 7: Chickens are funny birds. What they eat goes into the
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  Speaker 7: eggs they lay. In essence, if a chicken eats moth bones,
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  Speaker 7: its eggs smell of camphor.
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  Speaker 5: No kidding. Fact.
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  Speaker 7: Fact. Now, somewhere in the country, there are some chickens
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  Speaker 7: that have been drinking water polluted with nitroglycerin.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 7: The eggs Waldo had for breakfast had traces of nitroglycerin
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  Speaker 7: in them.
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  Speaker 5: So?
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  Speaker 4: Might have been an accident.
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  Speaker 7: When I found an obvious thug posing as a grocer
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  Speaker 7: in the store where the eggs were bought, I knew
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  Speaker 7: it was something else.
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  Speaker 4: Somewhere, Matty.
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  Speaker 7: Up in the farming country, there's a crooked plant manufacturing
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  Speaker 7: supplies for criminals. Bootleg nitroglycerin for blasting safes, counterfeit money,
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  Speaker 7: probably everything that a crook can't buy legitimately.
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  Speaker 5: Holy smoke. And these polluted eggs are the giveaway to
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  Speaker 5: the plant?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Some of the nitro must have seeped out accidentally and
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  Speaker 7: polluted the water in a brook or something that runs
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  Speaker 7: through a chicken farm nearby.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll be darned.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I had to.
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  Speaker 7: Hold on to that thug without tipping my hand. He's
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  Speaker 7: got to lead us to that place. What's the pole
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  Speaker 7: motor stopping for, Matty?
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  Speaker 5: The job is done, Nick.
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  Speaker 8: That man was practically dead when we found him, but
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  Speaker 8: he's alive now. You saved him, boy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, good, good, Waldo. Can I question him?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, not for two or three days, the
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  Speaker 5: doc says. It's going to be tough enough just keeping
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  Speaker 5: him alive.
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  Speaker 4: Two or three days? By that time, this whole mob
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  Speaker 4: may be a thousand miles away.
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  Speaker 7: It's all up to Patsy now. All we can do
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  Speaker 7: is go back to the office and wait for her
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  Speaker 7: to check in.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Eddie.
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  Speaker 4: Yep?
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  Speaker 3: Close that door, will you? I can't hear myself think.
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  Speaker 4: You're a funny babe.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: When you invite a lady to eat in a private
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  Speaker 6: dining room, she likes to be private.
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  Speaker 10: I never knew old man Bleeker had a good-looking daughter
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  Speaker 10: like you. What a break for me. You coming into
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  Speaker 10: the store looking for a.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Come your mind in the store for him. He didn't
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  Speaker 3: say he was going nowhere.
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  Speaker 4: He got a rush call.
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  Speaker 10: Had to see somebody about some garage business.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 10: He's gonna be plenty sore when he hears I closed
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  Speaker 10: up the place to go eat lunch with his knockout daughter.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Eddie.
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  Speaker 4: Ain't that waiter ever gonna bring you some food?
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  Speaker 3: Huh? Oh, I'll go call him. I'll get that punk moving.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, babe.
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  Speaker 9: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Important garage business. That's a good one. Back already, babe?
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Tyler.
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  Speaker 4: Janet. I thought you were.
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  Speaker 12: The girl you brought?
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  Speaker 9: No, she's outside phoning, Tyler.
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  Speaker 3: Phoning?
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  Speaker 9: When five will get you ten, she's calling a guy
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  Speaker 9: named Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 4: Nick Carter?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, Tyler, Nick Carter. The man who came into Bleeker's
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  Speaker 9: store to buy eggs this morning when I was posing
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  Speaker 9: as a health inspector.
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  Speaker 5: Nick Carter?
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  Speaker 11: And that pretty face you're making up to belongs to
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  Speaker 11: Patsy Bowen, Carter's secretary.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I knew it all the time, Janet.
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  Speaker 9: You're a liar.
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  Speaker 12: Well, don't worry about it, babe.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take care of that kid.
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  Speaker 11: Not for me, you won't. You're quitting the gang, Tyler.
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  Speaker 11: You're too dangerous to keep around.
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  Speaker 9: Janet.
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  Speaker 12: So long, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Eddie Tyler sprawls over the table, two bullets in his heart,
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  Speaker 2: as Janet Steele slips out of the private dining room.
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  Speaker 2: With Tyler dead, Nick's only lead in the case ends.
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  Speaker 2: We'll learn what he does next in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: And now, back to.
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  Speaker 12: The case of the chemical chickens.
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  Speaker 2: Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by Old
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  Speaker 2: Dutch Cleanser. As we pick up our story, Nick Carter
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  Speaker 2: and Waldo have pulled up to the cafe and answered
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  Speaker 2: to Patsy's urgent telephone call.
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  Speaker 6: Nick?
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  Speaker 5: Nick? Hey, there's Patsy.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, what is it, Patsy?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Nick, it's too late. I've lost Tyler.
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  Speaker 5: For good.
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  Speaker 4: He got away when you were phoning me?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: Someone killed him.
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  Speaker 5: Killed him?
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  Speaker 4: Where's he now?
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  Speaker 3: In the back room. Strolled over the table. I went
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  Speaker 3: back and there he was.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Patsy. This is a tough break, but we'll manage.
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  Speaker 4: You get the car and wait.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Waldo, come with me.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: That must be the room back there, Nick.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Come on. Keep your back to the door. No one
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  Speaker 4: comes in. All right, boy. Chance might have something in
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  Speaker 4: his pockets.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 4: No wallet. No papers. Nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Then we're stuck, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: Not quite. There's one chance. His pockets and his pants, cops.
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  Speaker 5: What are you ripping his pockets out for, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: You'll find out later. Now, this is what we do.
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  Speaker 4: You telephone Matty. Tell him about this murder.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And join me at the lab.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Patsy goes to Bleeker's store to check the crates the
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  Speaker 7: tainted eggs were delivered in. Those crates are usually stenciled
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  Speaker 7: with the address of the farm that delivered them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but what.
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  Speaker 7: If Patsy can find that address, it may tell us
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  Speaker 7: where Eddie Tyler came from. If she can't, we'll have
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  Speaker 7: to depend on his pockets and the cuffs of his pants.
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  Speaker 4: All right, hold that pocket steady, Walter. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I want to be sure this vacuum cleaner picks up
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  Speaker 7: every particle of dirt and grit that's in it.
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  Speaker 5: This one's clean now, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: All right, give me the cuff of the pants.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Clean them out, too.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I don't get it, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: Hold it steady. All right, that's clean.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Now the other one. Okay. Oops, careful. That's it. All right,
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  Speaker 4: all finished. Now we.
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  Speaker 7: Open the vacuum cleaner. And we have one porcelain trap
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  Speaker 7: filled with assorted dust.
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  Speaker 5: Dust?
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  Speaker 4: And this dust is going under the microscope right now.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 4: Going to tell us where Eddie Tyler's been during the
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  Speaker 4: past few weeks.
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  Speaker 5: How the devil can dust do that, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: Use your head, Wardle.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but there's dust in the air everywhere.
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  Speaker 7: But it's not all the same kind of dust. Find
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  Speaker 7: particular kinds of dust in particular localities. And that's what
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  Speaker 7: I'm counting on.
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  Speaker 5: You found anything yet, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: I think so. Patsy? No, it's the law.
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  Speaker 2: And darn good and sore, too, if you want to know.
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  Speaker 2: Find any Tyler matter? Nick, this is a fine mess.
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  Speaker 2: You let Tyler get away so you can break the
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  Speaker 2: case and he ends up a corpse. Oh, when the
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: commissioner hears about this tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 4: The case will be ended by tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 5: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 4: No, hoping. I've been checking the dust from Tyler's pockets.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 7: Outside of ordinary dust found almost everywhere, I've found smelter dust,
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: flower dust, and particles of dry hay, all in the
• 14:49
  Speaker 7: deepest layers. That means Tyler's been living in a farming
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  Speaker 7: vicinity that also has an iron foundry and flour mill
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  Speaker 7: somewhere near.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Give me that industrial map, Waldo.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Nick Carter speaking.
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  Speaker 3: Nick, Patsy. I've just finished searching Bleaker's store.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: It's no good, Nick. Every egg crate in the place
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  Speaker 3: has been destroyed. Not one left anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: This must be it.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Nick, what on earth are you talking about?
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: I've been checking my industrial map while you were reporting, Patsy.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: Mattie, there's only one town in the near vicinity that's
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: a farming center and at the same time has a
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: flour mill and an iron foundry.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: That's Brickton.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: Brickton?
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: That must be the place Tyler came from.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I don't understand, Nick.
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, you will pretty soon. Hurry back to the office, Patsy. You, Waldo,
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: and I are driving up to Brickton right away.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: A brick and a half mile, Nick. That's what the
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: sign said.
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Now, remember, we stay undercover in this town. There's a
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: sheriff in here that hates the very sight of me.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Hey, did you have a run-in with him before, Nick?
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, in the Joplin case last year. But it was
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: a run-in with her.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, a lady sheriff? Like in Texas, eh?
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: Tougher in Texas. Sheriff Moss Stickney is convinced I double-crossed
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: her last year. She'll do everything she can to obstruct
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: me now, so we stay undercover.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Now, look, when we get into Brickton, you and Waldo
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: each rent a car.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: I've divided Brickton into three areas. Each one of us
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: covers one of the areas.
• 16:17
  Speaker 13: Uh-uh.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Here's the town line, Nick.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: Uh-huh.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Now, each of us.
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: Visits every farm in our area and asks the farm
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: owners if they deliver eggs to Bleeker in New York.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but wait. Some of them farmers might not answer, Nick.
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: Well, here are two $ 100 bills. You and Patsy each
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: take one.
• 16:32
  Speaker 13: Huh?
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: If you meet a close-mouthed farmer.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: Tell him this $ 100 bill was found in a crate
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: of eggs delivered to Bleeker. He can collect if he
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: has records proving deliveries of yesterday.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Well, that ought to work. Oh, slow down, Nick. We're
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: passing a rent-a-car garage.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Uh-oh. Run by the terrible Ma Stickney. All right.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: Each of you rent a car. And we'll meet back
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: here 6 o'clock tonight.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Good luck.
• 17:07
  Speaker 13: Well, well, well, this is farm number three for Detective
• 17:13
  Speaker 13: Waldo McGlynn to examine with his piercing eyes.
• 17:17
  Speaker 14: Wilson's farm. Maybe we'll have better luck with this one here. Ah,
• 17:24
  Speaker 14: it is a farmer. It's a farmerette, I'm going to
• 17:27
  Speaker 14: be questioning.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Very pretty, too, in them pants.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Just a minute there, young lady. Yes? How would you
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: like to earn 100... It's the health inspector.
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: Well, I've seen you before, haven't I? In Bleeker's Grocery
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: this morning?
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Well, ma'am, I... You're.
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: The famous Waldo McGlynn, aren't you? Nick Carter's great assistant.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: You got the right man, ma'am. But it's a secret.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Nobody's supposed to know that me and Nick is up here.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: McGlynn, I'm certainly glad to see you. It's about those eggs.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: The bad eggs.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, you found them then?
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: They're here on this farm. I need your help, Mr. McGlynn.
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: I'm only a weak woman and... You.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Waldo McGlynn's the right man for you, ma'am. Where are
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: them bad eggs?
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: There's a building back at this farm, up this road
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: a little. I'll show you.
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: Good.
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: Does Mr. Carter know you're here?
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: No, ma'am.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: Waldo McGlynn works alone.
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: Good.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Now, what's the layout here, ma'am?
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: You see that house there, right along the chicken yard?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 18:34
  Speaker 11: There's some men live there. They rented it from Wilson.
• 18:37
  Speaker 11: They pretend to be scientists doing research, but.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: They're... I know, I know.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: They're crooks, ma'am.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: They're making dynamite and burglar tools for more crooks.
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: Well, in some way, the nitroglycerin they're making got into
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: the chicken's drinking water and tainted the eggs.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I've already deduced that meself, ma'am.
• 18:53
  Speaker 11: So this morning when the eggs were delivered to Bleeker's
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: grocery in New York, Bleeker called Farmer Wilson on the
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: telephone and complained.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: Ah.
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: And Wilson asked the crooks about it because he thought
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: they were scientists.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: He couldn't understand it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: And the crooks realized that the tainted eggs might lead
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: the police up here to their factory.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure.
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: So when they learned that all the eggs in this
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: particular shipment went to Bleeker's, they rushed down to the
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: city and tried to cover up by closing Bleeker's mouth
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: and paying off all the customers who came back to
• 19:22
  Speaker 11: the grocery to complain.
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah, sure. They even had a woman pose as a
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: health inspector to make it look legitimate.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: But ma'am, you.
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: Come into the house, Mr. McGlynn. The crooks aren't here now.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Hey, but ma'am, you were the health inspector.
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: Yes, Mr. McGlynn, I was.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Hi, Janet.
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: Who's the character with the walrus spinach? Nosy little man.
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: Works for Nick Carter. Hey, you can't... Stand still, McGlynn,
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: and don't reach for that rod or I'll blow you
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: wide open.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: You're in cahoots with him. Shut up.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Up.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Findle. Yeah?
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: Carter's in town. We have to drop everything and take
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: care of him.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: You'll never harm Nick Carter.
• 19:55
  Speaker 11: You'll never get.
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: Quiet down, Grandpa. Findle, tell the boys to get ready.
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: You can tie up this character in the meantime.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: Oh, I forgot to tell you. I had to kill
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: Eddie Tyler in town. He turned out to be a nuisance.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: What time is it, Patsy?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: 6.30, Nick.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Now, where in blazes is Walter? Should have been here
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: at 6.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Maybe he located the farm.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's probably there now, blasting away with that old.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: 44 of yours. Guns are bigger menace to Walter than
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: the underworld.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Sheriff Stickney!
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Sheriff Stickney, is that you?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Well, it's that health inspector from New York.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: Sheriff Stickney, the most amazing thing just happened to me a... Oh,
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry. I thought Sheriff Stickney was in this car.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: You want help? I'll be glad to give it to you.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I'm Nick Carter.
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: Not the Nick Carter.
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: Well, I'm Janet Steele, a health inspector from New York.
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: I was up here investigating a shipment of bad eggs.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: What did you say just happened to you, Miss Steele?
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: Oh, it's the strangest thing.
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: I found a car parked out on the road. It's
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: one that Sheriff Stickney rents. And guess what was stuck
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: in the windshield? Half of a hundred dollar bill.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: In what road?
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Where?
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: Just outside Wilson's Farm. It was near a large white
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: building alongside the chicken yards. Chicken yards?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Nick, that's it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, Patsy, come on. Let's get out there fast.
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: The End.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: The heavy roadster surges forward as Nick and Patsy drive
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: into what is apparently a cleverly baited trap. We'll see
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: whether or not the jaws of the trap close on
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: them in just a moment. And now for the conclusion
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: of The Case of the Chemical Chickens. Today's Nick Carter
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: adventure brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser.
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: It's seven o'clock.
• 21:49
  Speaker 12: The night is pitch black. Alongside the lighthouse behind Farmer
• 21:52
  Speaker 12: Wilson's chicken yard... Five men and a woman wait tensely,
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: watching the turnpike road.
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: He ought to be along any minute, Bindle. I took
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: the shortcut. He couldn't be more than five minutes behind me.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: He'll be along.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: This is what we do, Bindle.
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: When he comes waltzing in looking for Grandpa, we knock
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: him and the girl cold. We take the three of
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: them over to the covered bridge and drive them and
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: the car into the river.
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: Big accident.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Well, better do it soon. Hold it, Bindle. Listen.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: It's a car.
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: It's Carter. I know that car.
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: Get set, everybody. When I give the word, give them
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: the lights and show them they're covered.
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: Looks like Carter and the girl. All right, Bindle.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: You're covered, Carter. You and the... Holy!
• 22:45
  Speaker 15: What's the meaning of this ruckus? What are you doing
• 22:47
  Speaker 15: with them guns? Guns is illegal in Brixton County.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: What's that name, Sheriff?
• 22:52
  Speaker 12: Your name's Bendel, ain't it?
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: And yours is Steele. Well, you're both under arrest.
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: We got you covered, Ma.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry your number's up. Don't get excited, boys.
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: Ma's going to have a fatal accident along with Carter
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: and the girl.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: The only accident I'm going to have is to pull the.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Trigger of this Tommy gun.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Hey, that's Carter.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Carter, where?
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: On the roof of your little factory, covering all of you.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: The first man who turns the light toward me gets
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: a head full of sluts.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Your racket's finished, Janet.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: You want to know why?
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Ask your lawyer.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: You'll be seeing a lot of him while you're trying
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: to beat a murder rap.
• 23:31
  Speaker 15: Conker, I got a hand to you. You're all right
• 23:35
  Speaker 15: for a New York detective. Laying the whole case in
• 23:38
  Speaker 15: my lap the way you did was mighty generous.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: Nick, boy, I got to apologize. I failed me mission.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: Just when I had this whole mystery solved, I made
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: one little slip.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: One little slip. You walked right into a trap with
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: your eyes wide open. You and your 44.
• 23:57
  Speaker 12: Just one thing, Carter.
• 23:59
  Speaker 15: How'd you know that story of Janice was phony when
• 24:02
  Speaker 15: she tried to trap you and Miss Bowen?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Well, Sheriff, stick me three things.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: Before I came out here, I checked up and couldn't
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: find any record of an inspector on.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: The health department staff named Janet Steele. That was the
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: first thing.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: Then I didn't like the idea of a health inspector
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: working up here in Brickton.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: It sounded phony. She wouldn't have any jurisdiction up here.
• 24:21
  Speaker 12: She sure wouldn't.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: But the slip that gelled everything for me was when
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: she claimed to recognize Waldo's car as one of the
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: cars that you rented. For a stranger in Brickton, it
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: was obviously impossible.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: For her to know that. So I pretended to fall
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: into the trap, and that's all.
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: Ah, you done it in great style, Nick boy. When
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: you showed up on that roof with a tommy gun
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: in your hands, you was old Sim Carter all over again.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Ah, none of that fancy deduction stuff. No, sir, bullets
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: and action.
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: Nick, take Waldo McGlynn's word for it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: You'll be a detective yet.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: The End.
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: Well, Nick, what about the adventure Old Dutch Cleanser will
• 25:07
  Speaker 12: bring us next week?
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Before I answer that, Bob, I wish to remind our
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: listeners that National Boys Club Week begins tomorrow. And as
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: you know, sponsoring a boys club of my own, I'm
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: particularly interested in this fine work which is combating juvenile
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: delinquency so effectively. More than a quarter of a million
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: boys find wholesome activity and entertainment in these clubs. Under
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: competent leadership, they receive companionship and recreation and learn to
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: develop skills and ambitions. According to law enforcement authorities, boys'
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: clubs lessen delinquency wherever they're established. For these reasons, I personally,
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: as well as the makers of Old Dutch Cleanser, wish
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: to salute the Boys' Clubs of America for their great
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: contribution in building the citizens of tomorrow.
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: And now.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Next week's adventure.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, it scares me just to remember that case.
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: If it scares you, it must be some story. What's
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: it all about?
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Well, Bob, it started with a mysterious disappearance of a
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: lot of new cars that were never found again.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: And it just about finished when Nick and I ended
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: up in an old abandoned quarry full of water.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: But thanks to a new shortwave device, we managed to
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: solve the case.
• 26:15
  Speaker 12: I certainly want to hear this story. What do you
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: call it, Nick?
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I call it the case of the lucrative wrecks.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Nick Carter, Master Detective, is presented each week at this
• 26:29
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• 26:32
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• 26:35
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• 26:42
  Speaker 12: Old Dutch Cleanser.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Nick Carter, Master Detective, produced and directed by Jock McGregor,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: is copyrighted by Street & Smith Publications, Incorporated. Lon Clark
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: is starred as Nick with Charlotte Manson featured as Patsy.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Waldo is played by Humphrey Davis. Matty by Ed Latimer.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Today's script was written by Alfred Bester. Original music is
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: played by George Wright. This program is fictional and any
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 27:24
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• 27:28
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• 27:28
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• 27:45
  Speaker 1: You have been listening to Nick Carter, Master Detective in
• 27:49
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