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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Eastern Western Matter (EP1627) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 2: First.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, now it's time for today's episode of
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  Speaker 1: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. The original air date April sixth
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen fifty eight and the title is The Eastern
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  Speaker 1: Western Matter.
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  Speaker 3: Rob Hollywood. It's time now for.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 5: Earl Foreman Johnny don in Serriesota.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tell me, Earl. The Florida weather is finally behaving itself.
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  Speaker 3: The water and the gulf is warmed up. So I
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  Speaker 3: grab my fishing clothes, tackle box, a couple of rods
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  Speaker 3: and reels.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you better grab your levi's boots and saddle, and
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  Speaker 5: a couple of six guns in stead.
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  Speaker 4: What is this a Western?
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  Speaker 6: It may be an Eastern Western before we're through. Listen,
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  Speaker 6: Florida is the leading cattle state here in the Deep South.
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  Speaker 4: I had heard something to that effect.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, the freezing weather a short while back hit some
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  Speaker 5: of the.
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  Speaker 4: Ranchers pretty hard, to say nothing of the tourist trade.
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  Speaker 6: Right ort near lay. The year round pasture age makes
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  Speaker 6: it unnecessary to lay up a lot of hay and
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  Speaker 6: feed for the winner.
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  Speaker 4: I figures.
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  Speaker 6: But this year, thanks to the freeze, the cattle we're
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  Speaker 6: so awakened by malnutrition and then slashing around in soggy
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  Speaker 6: pasture land.
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  Speaker 5: Well, at least a couple of hundred thousand I have died.
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  Speaker 3: What's your problem, Earland outside of the high cause of steak.
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  Speaker 5: A rancher has just hit me with a big fat claim.
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  Speaker 4: Oh how much seventy eight.
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  Speaker 5: Seven and fifty dollars says that he lost his entire herd.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know a lot of them and lost quite
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  Speaker 3: a few, but the entire herd.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah you coming, I sure, am.
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  Speaker 3: Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
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  Speaker 3: the Action fact expenser Cord America's Fabulous free land It
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  Speaker 3: Insurance Investigator, or is truly Johnny Dollar? Expense account submitted
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  Speaker 3: by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to the Tri State
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  Speaker 3: Life and Casualty Company, Sarasota, Florida office. Following is the acount
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  Speaker 3: of expenses incurage during my investigation of the Eastern Western
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  Speaker 3: matter expense ac count ADAM one ninety four eighty plain
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  Speaker 3: for an incidental's Hertford, Connecticut to Sarasota. As I expected,
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  Speaker 3: Earl Porman met me at the airport. We headed north
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  Speaker 3: a Route forty one, thirteen miles later, at Braytonon, we
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  Speaker 3: turned east on sixty four after grabbing a late lunch.
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  Speaker 3: That's item two five seventy five. Then still traveling eastward,
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  Speaker 3: we crossed the Kissimmee River onto a narrow and improved
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  Speaker 3: road into the swampland, and it struck me that what
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  Speaker 3: should have been lush, green vegetation in this low damp
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  Speaker 3: country was brown and lifeless.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the cold weather did, Johnny? All that grass
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  Speaker 2: said good past, your froze and rotted away.
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  Speaker 3: Now, wonder the cattle haven't been eating well? But didn't
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  Speaker 3: I read somewhere they were fed the rowined orange crops.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but that still didn't save a lot of the herds.
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  Speaker 2: Losses have been pretty heavy.
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  Speaker 8: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But as I told you over the phone, Trimble
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  Speaker 2: is the only one I know of who lost all
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  Speaker 2: his steers.
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  Speaker 4: That the one who's made the insurance claim. Yeah, Bart Trimble.
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  Speaker 5: His fence starts at the next turn.
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  Speaker 9: In the road.
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  Speaker 4: Have you had many claims, Earl?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, a few a month or so ago, small ones.
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  Speaker 2: Not many of these people insure of their herds. There,
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  Speaker 2: that's where Trimble's place starts. You see it.
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  Speaker 3: I saw it all right, hundreds of acres of wet, brown,
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  Speaker 3: dead looking pasture.
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  Speaker 4: Way. I also saw the steers, hundreds of them, their
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  Speaker 4: carcasses lying there, running in the sun. Oh what was
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  Speaker 4: left of them? The Buzzards have done.
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  Speaker 2: Well, five hundred and twenty five head, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: But surely some of them must have survived.
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  Speaker 2: Not according to the claim I received. That's why I
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  Speaker 2: called you immediately, Earl.
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  Speaker 3: You said the other claims were filed a month or
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  Speaker 3: so ago. I hoped you'd catch that. Why did Tremble
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  Speaker 3: wait so long? That's another reason I called you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I see what you mean. Here's his gait. Let's
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  Speaker 4: see what he has to say.
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  Speaker 3: The Tremble place was unexpectedly new and tidy looking. The
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  Speaker 3: main house was a concrete block, a fair all white
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  Speaker 3: with a slab roof. Behind it was a brine and
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  Speaker 3: a corral. The snack of bail hay was obviously for
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  Speaker 3: the horses, and hardly big enough if.
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  Speaker 4: He'd a herd of steers. A few chickens pecking around
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  Speaker 4: here and there, Love me, Tommy. The woman who opened
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  Speaker 4: the door was about forty. It's tall and nice on me,
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  Speaker 4: well made up, almost out of place on a cattle ranch.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, oh, mister Poorman, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: And a voice was soft, gentle, pleasant, I'll do missus Tremble.
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  Speaker 10: Nice to see, mister Porman.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you come in?
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  Speaker 9: I hear you say yes, But he has a friend
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  Speaker 9: with him. Well, I won't kid you, mister Porman.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see you, Hardie, and I hope you
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  Speaker 2: brought me a nice make insurance check. This is Johnny Dollar, mister,
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  Speaker 2: and missus Trimble. He's with our company.
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  Speaker 10: Well, how do you do, mister Dollar? Won't you please
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  Speaker 10: come in?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you?
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  Speaker 8: Sir?
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  Speaker 9: I think i've heard of you. Sit down, won't you?
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  Speaker 10: Sepa will be ready in a little while. And of
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  Speaker 10: course you're going to stay, aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar? Well, now that depends, of course you will stay.
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  Speaker 2: I really should get back to Sarasota tonight, my wife.
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  Speaker 9: Wait a minute, now, I know you're the.
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  Speaker 2: Insurance investigator, that's right.
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  Speaker 9: And what's he doing here? Pullman? What's here to investigate?
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  Speaker 2: You may be trying to say I killed off the
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  Speaker 2: herd myself to collect the insurance.
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  Speaker 9: Might said nothing of the sort.
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  Speaker 2: And what's to investigate? I told you I don't like this,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm telling you right.
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  Speaker 10: To your face you shouldn't talk like that.
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  Speaker 9: It's the truth. Just what do you think you're gonna
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  Speaker 9: do around here? Dollar?
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  Speaker 5: Bye?
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  Speaker 2: Please?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I have the pends, mister Turmbule.
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  Speaker 2: Does he have to say it's okay pullman before you
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  Speaker 2: can pay my claim?
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: He does.
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  Speaker 9: Well, believe me, if.
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  Speaker 2: I'd known this was the kind of out that I
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  Speaker 2: was dealing with, paying premiums to okay, all right, poke
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  Speaker 2: around as much as you want, stay around as long
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  Speaker 2: as you like. We'll bed you down, we'll feed you,
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  Speaker 2: we'll show you what kind of people we are. Just
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  Speaker 2: don't get in my way. I've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: work to do, and don't tell me.
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  Speaker 9: I'm a crook.
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  Speaker 4: Now, let's be read this.
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  Speaker 9: He I'm being reasonable. You're the one that what do
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  Speaker 9: you want, shorty?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you told me to tell you.
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  Speaker 9: Boss, Tell me why the.
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  Speaker 8: Truck has come to pick up them hides and.
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  Speaker 9: Help them load them on the truck. Go ahead, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: You're selling the hides from those animals world, sure?
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  Speaker 9: Why not? Oh we could salvage that Is anything wrong
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  Speaker 9: with that?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing at all? All right?
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  Speaker 2: You want horses to snoop around? Help yourself. Saddles are
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  Speaker 2: in the barn, but just stay out of my way.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, shorty, let's get up with the airs nice
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  Speaker 2: and tin you're boss.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sorry, but it's been so upset over losing all
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  Speaker 10: those steers.
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  Speaker 2: Well, of course we can't blame him for that.
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  Speaker 10: He's been working so hard trying to save some of
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  Speaker 10: the hides and sell the carcasses for fertilized Yes, I know,
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  Speaker 10: with so many ranchers trying to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Why did he wait so long before finding his claim,
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  Speaker 3: Missus Trimble.
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  Speaker 10: Because he's been so busy, and because he hoped he
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  Speaker 10: could salvage something from the herd.
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  Speaker 3: I guess because this lapse of time has given the
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  Speaker 3: bodies a chance to decompose. What has given them, buzzies
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  Speaker 3: and other scavengers, a chance to remove any evidence that
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  Speaker 3: maybe those steers were deliberately Oh no, surely.
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  Speaker 10: You don't think for a minute that my husband would.
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  Speaker 4: Where can I find the nearest veterinarian well.
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  Speaker 10: That we use? Is that? But mister Dwer, you don't
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  Speaker 10: You can't possibly think.
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you know what I think after a good
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  Speaker 3: cow doctor has a look at those animals, Act two
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  Speaker 3: of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
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  Speaker 11: From the hose of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli
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  Speaker 11: is an exciting beginning to a stirring song. It is
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  Speaker 11: an historic salutation to the efforts of a valiant group
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  Speaker 11: of fighting men. Why is there history glorious? What spurred
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  Speaker 11: them on? Patriotism and desire for excitement are sometimes given
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  Speaker 11: for reasons, but these are not the answers The answer is,
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  Speaker 11: these were men of vision, men who understood our country's needs. Respect, honor,
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  Speaker 11: and prestige are things that go hand in hand.
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  Speaker 4: With the country's greatness.
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  Speaker 11: Major Smedley Deed Butler recognized this in the year nineteen fifteen.
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  Speaker 11: At that time, our diplomatic negotiations with Haite were disrupted
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  Speaker 11: by Coco bandits, who perilously affected the lives of some
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  Speaker 11: United States citizens in Haite. A contingent of marines under
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  Speaker 11: the command of Major Butler was sent in to bring
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  Speaker 11: the bandits under control. Though they were holed up in
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  Speaker 11: Fort Liberty, Major Butler found an opening in the wall
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  Speaker 11: and led a terrifying charge through the breach that resulted
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  Speaker 11: in very dangerous hand to hand combat for himself and
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  Speaker 11: his men. Amid a furious onslaught of Cocko bandits and
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  Speaker 11: a hail of enemy bullets. Major Butler succeeded in overcoming
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  Speaker 11: the resis distance and creating a peaceful atmosphere. His grateful
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  Speaker 11: country awarded him the Medal of Honor for bravery, forceful leadership,
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  Speaker 11: and action above and beyond the call of duty. The
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  Speaker 11: second time he was awarded this high honor. Major Smedley
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  Speaker 11: Butler had a code of conduct born of years of
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  Speaker 11: devotion and service to the United States of America, and
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  Speaker 11: now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
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  Speaker 11: Eastern Western Matter. At dinner that night, Bert Trimble had
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  Speaker 11: changed his tune. Was very apologetic, almost too much so,
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  Speaker 11: and too nice.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't need it, mister Dollar, what I said before,
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  Speaker 2: at least not the way I said it. But this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing has hit me pretty hard, losing over five
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  Speaker 2: hundred steers and handful of care.
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  Speaker 10: I told you by it from They all went so
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  Speaker 10: quickly that night, you should have been suspicious.
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  Speaker 4: What night, missus Trimble was last big freeze.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I got back here late. I went up to
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  Speaker 2: Lake Wales trying to bake some feed.
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  Speaker 9: No luck.
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  Speaker 2: Then it blew up cold, and by the time I
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  Speaker 2: got back here got the hands rounded up. How many,
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  Speaker 2: mister Turnbull, and there were five of us, including Shorty Skinner.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen that Shorty somewhere before all Anyhow, when we
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  Speaker 2: got to them, the cattle were all bunched up at
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  Speaker 2: the north fence.
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  Speaker 9: We thought we'd drive the strong ones back here.
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  Speaker 2: Where they'd have some shelter and we could give them
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  Speaker 2: the hay we keep for the horses, but they wouldn't move.
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  Speaker 2: Most of them couldn't move, and it was dark and
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  Speaker 2: freezing wind was cutting across the swamp, so all we
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  Speaker 2: could do was come back here and pray. Next morning
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  Speaker 2: they were dead, all of them. I've put everything I
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  Speaker 2: had into this ranch, every penny I saved from my
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  Speaker 2: factory work up north, Betty's money from nursing, even cashed
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  Speaker 2: in my own life insurance policy.
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  Speaker 9: And now they're gone.
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  Speaker 2: If I got a little nasty, I guess a man
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  Speaker 2: can take only so.
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  Speaker 4: Much for bot this past three years.
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  Speaker 10: And just when things were going good.
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  Speaker 3: Your hands spunk out in that building beside the barn.
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  Speaker 4: Huh.
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  Speaker 9: Only Shorty skinned out all the steers we could.
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  Speaker 2: The other boys left.
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  Speaker 9: I still owe Shorty some wages.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask a pretty blunt question, and I
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  Speaker 3: want an a stance here, as you already thought of
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  Speaker 3: giving up going somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, lots of times for Betty's sake, too, even thought
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  Speaker 2: of going out to California. I see she has relatives
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  Speaker 2: out there, all doing fine. They've kept after us to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and crop farm with them.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe I should have, but we stayed, didn't We dear.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I wouldn't give up. Even Betty reconciled herself to
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  Speaker 2: sticking it out.
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  Speaker 10: Only we'd known that this was going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We talked on for a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 3: We got nowhere and finally early and I plunged into
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  Speaker 3: our beds and the strong wine was beside the open window. Now,
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  Speaker 3: when Earl Forman sleeps, he's dead to the world, but
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  Speaker 3: he snores mightily. So after throwing a couple of shoes
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  Speaker 3: at him, I gave up and managed to drop off
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  Speaker 3: with a pillow wrapped.
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  Speaker 4: Around my head. That was a mistake, an almost deadly mistake.
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  Speaker 2: Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Wake up, Wake up, Johnny, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: You hear me, Johnny, wake up?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I mean stand up. I'll help you.
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  Speaker 4: Breathe deeply.
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  Speaker 5: I can smell it.
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  Speaker 4: What did your deep breath? Deep breath?
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  Speaker 3: Come on?
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  Speaker 4: What is the it? Chloroform?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, on your pillow. Oh yeah, I threw it out
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  Speaker 4: the window.
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  Speaker 9: Your pillow.
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  Speaker 2: It was saturated with chloroform. Give me, give me a hand, Earl.
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  Speaker 2: I'm dissy.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody came in that window.
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  Speaker 9: The pillow was over your head.
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  Speaker 4: You'll see her.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, but Johnny, let me sit down again, yump
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  Speaker 2: by the window.
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  Speaker 4: I breathe deeply.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I rolled out of bed in my sleep at
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  Speaker 2: narrow bed, or I'd never have wakened. I heard the
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  Speaker 2: door slam, then I smelt it. But who, Johnny, I
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  Speaker 2: knew I'd seen that Shorty Skinner somewhere. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: on a road gang over near Sarasota Prison gang. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: I was driving my brand new cat as I passed
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  Speaker 2: him and the rest of that glowering bunch. He let
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  Speaker 2: fly with a handful of mud.
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  Speaker 9: If you ask me, he's the one who came in
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  Speaker 9: here and.
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  Speaker 8: Tried to chloroform.
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  Speaker 4: But why That's what.
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  Speaker 9: I'm going to find out right now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wait, I'll be feeling okay in a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Let me handle it.
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  Speaker 3: By the time I was able to navigate and get grass,
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  Speaker 3: Missus Tremble called us for breakfast.
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  Speaker 4: To say the Trembles were upset.
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  Speaker 3: Over what had happened to me would be an understatement.
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  Speaker 3: Breakfast waited while we all went out to the bunk house.
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  Speaker 3: Shorty was gone, took what littlely owned with him too.
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  Speaker 4: Ask either of you any idea why he'd attacked me?
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  Speaker 10: Good heaven no, But I never did really trust that man.
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  Speaker 10: It was such a sneaky looking little rat.
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  Speaker 2: Yet he was the only one who stayed when I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't keep their wages up to date. Where would he
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  Speaker 2: ever get hold of chloroform?
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  Speaker 10: That's the part I don't understand from the.
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  Speaker 9: Locker dear back in the barn. Huh you know the
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  Speaker 9: stuff we got to put that old sick mare out
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  Speaker 9: of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, of course, I think why Shorty did this
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  Speaker 2: is pretty obvious, Johnny. Yeah, he was afraid you'd find
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  Speaker 2: out what and who killed off this herd.
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  Speaker 9: But look, everybody, the note on top of this bomb.
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  Speaker 4: He let me see it.
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  Speaker 3: What's it say, Johnny, I'm tired. I'm tired working for
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  Speaker 3: no pay. I will leave you know where to send
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  Speaker 3: my pay when you collect on that their insurance.
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  Speaker 2: Shorty, Shorty, shorty skinner, crazy fool wanted his money. He
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  Speaker 2: knew I had none, but I could collect plenty on
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  Speaker 2: the insurance if he poisoned my herd.
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  Speaker 3: Oh was it poison tremble? You didn't seem to think
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  Speaker 3: so before, but now that you have somebody to pin
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  Speaker 3: it on, you seem pretty sure of it. To Dallan, No, Johnny,
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  Speaker 3: it must have been shorty maybe maybe not. When the
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  Speaker 3: vet arivese if he decides the herd was poisoned, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we'll take it from there. Act three of Yours, Truly,
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar. In a moment, our flag now numbers fifty stars,
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  Speaker 3: and behind each star there stands yet another flag representing
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  Speaker 3: one of the fifty states. Wyoming state flag pays homage
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  Speaker 3: to the monarch of the Great Plains, the Bison, or
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  Speaker 3: Buffalo as we call him, set over the Bison as
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  Speaker 3: the great Seal.
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  Speaker 8: Of Wyoming, almost as a brand. The red in the
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  Speaker 8: flag's border represents the Indians who knew and loved the
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  Speaker 8: country long before white settlers arrived. It also represents the
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  Speaker 8: red blood of the pioneers who gave their lives in
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  Speaker 8: reclaiming the soil. The red, white, and blue border of
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  Speaker 8: the flag indicates Wyoming's oneness with the Union. Wyoming's state flag,
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  Speaker 8: the flag of the forty fourth state to enter the Union,
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  Speaker 8: was adopted on January thirty first, nineteen seventeen, and now
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  Speaker 8: Act three of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and the Eastern
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  Speaker 8: Western Matter. The veterinarian arrived from kissing me, he Bart
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  Speaker 8: Tremble Earl Porman and I rode out on.
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  Speaker 4: Horseback to inspect the dead catalog.
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  Speaker 3: As I had anticipated, the vet made it plain that
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  Speaker 3: the bodies were too far decomposed for him to tell
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  Speaker 3: anything until that is, he noticed a pale purplish line
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  Speaker 3: around the inside edge of a watering trough at a
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  Speaker 3: far corner of the fence.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever used it didn't realize that to leave this telltale
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  Speaker 2: ring around the trough?
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  Speaker 4: Used?
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  Speaker 11: What?
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  Speaker 4: Doctor?
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  Speaker 2: And let me scrape off a little mink shoe?
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  Speaker 9: Do you think it's a poison, Dutch?
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  Speaker 4: I can taste it?
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  Speaker 2: Is that getting enough to hurt me? Oh well, no
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  Speaker 2: doubt about it. The north the dancer, that's what killed
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  Speaker 2: the herd.
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  Speaker 5: And beyond the shadow of the dot.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a very well known poison doctor. I know
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  Speaker 2: she was almost entirely in laboratory experimentation. I remember it
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  Speaker 2: well from a college days. But out here, who did
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  Speaker 2: this to me?
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  Speaker 4: Who did it?
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  Speaker 9: You don't know, Shorty?
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  Speaker 4: Who else, mister Dollard hook.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going back to the ranch house to a telephone.
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  Speaker 3: I'll see you when you get back there. I called
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  Speaker 3: the state police to get out on all points on
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  Speaker 3: Shorty skin. Then I started on the police in the
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  Speaker 3: neighboring towns. The second call to headquarters at Lake Wales
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  Speaker 3: got me unexpected results.
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  Speaker 5: Sure we got him right here in the clink.
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  Speaker 4: Oh what are you holding him on?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: He's vagrant, see no visible means of support. Found him
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  Speaker 5: sleeping on a bench in the park about.
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  Speaker 6: Nine point thirty last night, till we hauled him and
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  Speaker 6: lady put his ex on the police.
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  Speaker 4: Is what his eggs?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 3: I certainly do, thanks very much. The others hadn't got
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  Speaker 3: back from the past yet. Missus Tremble was in the
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  Speaker 3: kitchen making lunch. Quietly as possible. I stinked into their bedroom,
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  Speaker 3: carefully hidden in the desk, I found a lot of
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  Speaker 3: letters from the relatives in California, letters urging that they
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  Speaker 3: give up the ranch, do something anything to get the
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  Speaker 3: money out of it, and move to California. Those letters
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  Speaker 3: were addressed to only one of the Trembles. They were
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  Speaker 3: addressed too. And then I saw it, neatly framed on
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  Speaker 3: the wall, a diploma, a diploma from the famous Lipping
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  Speaker 3: Wall school.
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  Speaker 10: Of Why, mister Dallas, what are you doing.
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  Speaker 4: Missus Tremble?
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  Speaker 3: I found out that Shorty Skinner has served times at
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: least to the extent of working on a road gang.
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  Speaker 4: What for I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: Then he is a criminal. Then there's no question about
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  Speaker 10: who poisoned a hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you know about the Vets' findings that they were poisoned?
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  Speaker 10: Well no, no, but I thought it was understood.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of things have been understood wrong things. Did
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  Speaker 3: Surety give you a home address when he came to
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  Speaker 3: work here.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, yes he did. Do you think he'd go there
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  Speaker 10: after that?
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  Speaker 5: To say it?
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  Speaker 6: Please?
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  Speaker 10: It's here in this top drawer. Yes here.
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  Speaker 4: That's not his writing, No, that's mine. You see, Shorty
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  Speaker 4: can't write.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so he couldn't have written this note you found
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  Speaker 3: in this bunk?
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  Speaker 4: But who but look at it?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Doesn't that curly cue on the letter T look like
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  Speaker 3: the one here when you wrote his address?
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  Speaker 4: And how about this.
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  Speaker 3: Capitalized Heaven's mister dollar friends who wanted you to go
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  Speaker 3: to California, and you wanted to go. But as Bart told,
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  Speaker 3: as you reconciled yourself to staying here.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently I did.
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  Speaker 10: I did stay here even though I wasn't had the
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  Speaker 10: big freeze gave you a chance to kill off the
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  Speaker 10: herd collect a lot of insurance money and get away
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  Speaker 10: with it.
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  Speaker 3: You thought, mister did the method a little known poison
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  Speaker 3: you'd learned about back in the lipping Wall School of Nurses. No,
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  Speaker 3: but you hadn't expected me here to investigate, so you
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: had to get rid of me. How as a nurse
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: you knew all about chlora. Look, mister is a natural
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: with me sleeping with my head on the pillow, And
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: you knew that Earl was a sound sleeper. He's been
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: here before. And who get blamed Shorty because he'd left.
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  Speaker 3: Only Shorty had left long before that. He was picked
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  Speaker 3: up in Lake Wales at nine point thirty last night.
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  Speaker 8: What no, listen you to kill the herd?
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  Speaker 4: You tried to kill me?
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  Speaker 9: Is that true, Betty tell me?
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  Speaker 4: Is it?
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  Speaker 10: Yes? Yes, it's true. You know how I hated this place,
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  Speaker 10: this horrible, miserable cattle ranch, this living out in this
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  Speaker 10: god forsaken wilderness.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you wouldn't do anything about it, so I did.
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  Speaker 9: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 3: I had them three fifty dollars to a lawyer at
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the county seat who took my deposition. It'll be using
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: the trial of Betty Tremble as for bart Tremble. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Marland expense account total including transportation back to
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  Speaker 3: Hartford two hundred and seven dollars even yours t Lee
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  Speaker 3: Johnny duff Our star will return in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't take a war to make a hero, nor
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  Speaker 3: does it take a situation filled with an onslaught of
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  Speaker 3: deadly enemy gunfire, bombs and motors. It takes a man
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  Speaker 3: to make a hero, and the man's qualities of greatness
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  Speaker 3: are based on his code of conduct. It serves him
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  Speaker 3: in peace as well as war. In August nineteen sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: when the United States was still at peace with the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the world, part of our fleet was anchored
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: off Santo Domingo City. The USS Memphis was in danger
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: of total destruction from a hurricane. Only the efficient operation
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  Speaker 3: of the engines and boilers could get her out of
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  Speaker 3: the critical area.
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  Speaker 11: Lieutenant Claude A. Jones was senior engineering officer aboard. In
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  Speaker 11: rapid succession, boilers and steam pipes began about him, scalding
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  Speaker 11: him with.
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  Speaker 4: Clouds of steam.
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: Thousands of tons of water came down on him in
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: complete darkness. Lieutenant Jones nobly remained at his post as
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  Speaker 11: long as the engines would turn over. His supreme unselfish
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  Speaker 11: heroism inspired the men with him. When the boilers exploded,
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  Speaker 11: Jones with two men, rushed into the firerooms and rescued
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  Speaker 11: the men trapped there in the face of death by drowning, burning,
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: or suffocation from the scalding steam. Lieutenant Claude Jones performed
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  Speaker 11: a heroic feat because he felt was his duty to
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: do what he did. He earned the Medal of Honor
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: because he had a code of conduct that served him well.
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  Speaker 11: Now here is our star to tell you about next
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  Speaker 11: week's story. Next week, one honest woman, two honest men,
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  Speaker 11: yet one hundred thousand dollars was gone fact.
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  Speaker 4: Join us, won't you? Yours truly Johnny Dollar?
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  Speaker 3: Yours truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood
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  Speaker 3: and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: wrote today's story. Heard in our cast were Virginia Gregg,
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  Speaker 3: Vic Perrin, Jack Moyles, Marvin Miller, and Herb Bigrant. Be
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  Speaker 3: sure to join us next week, same time and station,
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  Speaker 3: or another exciting story of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This
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  Speaker 3: is Dan Cobberly speaking. This is the United States.
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  Speaker 8: Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, this is actually the second time in
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  Speaker 1: recent months that Jack Johnstone has used a situation where
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: someone is framed for and they're illiterate, which gives the
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  Speaker 1: game away. And I guess the moral of the show
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  Speaker 1: what it's trying to teach us is if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to frame someone, don't frame someone who can't. Seriously, I
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  Speaker 1: did like the background of the cattle ranching in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: It's not somewhere where you would typically think of cattle
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  Speaker 1: ranching as part of Florida agriculture. You know, if you
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: say Florida agriculture, I'm honestly just gonna automatically think oranges.
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  Speaker 1: But cattle is is and still a big part of
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  Speaker 1: Florida's economy. In fact, it still ranks twelfth in the
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  Speaker 1: nation and the number of beef cows, and it's home
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  Speaker 1: to four of America's ten largest cow calf operations, So
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  Speaker 1: it is still a very big part of their economy.
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  Speaker 1: But it's definitely a different Florida you get in old
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: time radio. The state was definitely changing. Florida's population actually
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  Speaker 1: during the nineteen fifties increase seventy eight point seven percent.
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  Speaker 1: Really the population growth that has continued to this day
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  Speaker 1: because at the start of nineteen fifty only two point
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  Speaker 1: seven seven million people lived in Florida. Twenty ten census
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: that total was up to eighteen point eight million people.
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  Speaker 1: That's changed. One of the big reasons for that, of course,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: is the increasing availability of air conditioning, which makes Florida
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: a lot more tolerable to live in and has made
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: it so that more people are able to enjoy so
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  Speaker 1: much of the great recreational and weather opportunities that that
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  Speaker 1: state provides. But it's nice to get a look at
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  Speaker 1: at some different aspects of Florida. All right, Well, that
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  Speaker 1: will actually do it for today. We will be back
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  Speaker 1: back tomorrow with Dragnet and then join us back here
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  Speaker 1: again next Friday for another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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