Desert Explosion
Counterspy · August 18, 1949 · 29 min · 3,219 words
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Tonight, the case of the bouncing bank robber. Another counterspye report to the American people. Brought to you each Tuesday and Thursday by Pepsi Cola. Pepsi Cola hits a spot, two full glasses, that's a lot.
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Why take less when Pepsi's best? And now to CounterSpy. Sometimes, CounterSpy cases extend over a period of years. Tonight's case, however, extended over a period of hours. The most exciting six hours your accounters' buys ever experienced.
River City, ten minutes to three in the afternoon. In a building on the north side, David Harding, chief of the counters' buys, was completing a routine field office investigation. In another building on the outskirts of the city, the Merchants' Federal Bank and Loan Association was preparing to close.
The few customers were at the tellers window. Then two men entered quietly from the street, stopped and looked around. You stay back, Gus and cover those wounds behind a railed in space, I'll take the cashier.
Okay, please. Oh, you're helping out. Yes, it's over there. If it's an overbought, you're doing a different amount. All right. How do you welcome them to the good deal? Can I help you, sir? Yeah, sure, cashier.
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