ep12 Two Million an Hour

earns two million dollars an hour. Two famous authors engage in a public fight. A noted man gets a warm place by the fire through a half a pack of oysters. Can you imagine that? This was Lindsey McCarry once more, ladies and gentlemen, introducing another session of this series of broadcasts in which we try to dramatize for you

some of the more surprising incidents and facts of the world. We'll return in just a moment with the first one. And here's our first item. Sometimes we gasp at the fortunes made and lost overnight in a furious by and sell flurry in the stock market. But did you ever hear of anyone earning two million

dollars an hour? Yes, I said two million dollars an hour. It stikers the imagination to think of what that might amount to in a year, or even a month. Just give me one day like that, and I'd be willing to let the rest of the world go by. In fact, I'd buy a few things

I've always been wanting. But here's the proof of that amazing statement. Vance Breeze, famous test pilot, once took a plane up for a test dive. He took the ship up to twenty thousand feet and dived within four thousand feet of the ground. The dive took up fifteen seconds, for which Vance Breeze was paid eight thousand dollars. If you're

mathematically inclined to expand those fifteen seconds into a minute, which gives you thirty two thousand dollars, multiply by sixty and you'll reach the staggering total of nearly two million dollars per hour. Can you imagine that?

You know it occurs quite often that two famous men will engage in a few of words over some bitterly contested difference, but it seldom happens that any two great men will come to a physical encounter. It did happen on one Thursday evening in 1931, March 29, to be exact, within the heavily draped and thickly carpeted walls of the Metropolitan Club in New York