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Calling All Cars: The Embroidered Slip

Calling All Cars · September 15, 1938 · 29 min · 4,847 words

The transcript of “The Embroidered Slip”, an episode of Calling All Cars first broadcast September 15, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.

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copyrighted program created by a Rio Grande. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office calling all cars, attention all cars to about cast 251 regarding a holdup. Be on the lookout for suspect described as male Americans six feet four inches.

Wait about 150 pounds. This man believes he willed in the holdup this day. That's all for going in quick. Yay! The calling all cars programs are not fairy tales, but the careful presentation of dramatic facts.

We observe the same principle in telling the story of Rio Grande Cracked Gasoline. When you were told that Rio Grande Cracked is the motor fuel of police car performance, it is supported by facts which no one can deny.

Here are some of them. Rio Grande Cracked powers more police cars, fire engines, ambulances, and other emergency equipment wherever it is sold than any other brand. And that's not all. In addition to a vast majority of your city and county officials, many heads of your California state and federal governments also prefer Rio Grande Crac to power their emergency automotive

equipment. And the reason for this overwhelming endorsement by those who drive the most and thus know the most about gasoline is that Rio Grande Crac has proved to be quicker-starting, smoother and acceleration with greater power and maximum speed, giving the kind of mileage that saves the money of taxpayers like you and me. And so if you're more interested in gasoline

fact than in gasoline ferry stories drop around at the red and white Rio Grande station in your neighborhood and get the most highly recommended gasoline in the west. The story we are to hear tonight is to be found in the confidential file of the office of the sheriff of Los Angeles County. We have therefore asked sheriff

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