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Big Inheritance

Father Knows Best · September 17, 1953 · 29 min · 4,211 words

The transcript of “Big Inheritance”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast September 17, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Father Knows Best plays Father Knows Best free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Now listen to Father Knows Best transcribed starring Robert Young as Father. Welcome to Springfield and another half hour visit with the folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street. Sit back and enjoy life with the Anderson's Kathy Bud Betty Margaret and Jim as the head of this typical American household again sets out to prove that Father Knows Best. We'll join the Anderson's in just a

moment. You know this is still the season for carefree holidays and vacations but But don't be carefree on the highway. With roads jammed with traffic, this is the time to be extra careful when driving.

When you plan a trip, be sure to allow plenty of time so that you won't be forced to drive too fast or too long. When you get tired of the wheel, you lose your skill and your judgment.

So don't drive too many hours at a stretch. Plan your trip so that you can stop frequently and get plenty of rest. When you start that trip, resolve that you're going to obey traffic, laws and regulations.

Don't gamble with safety. Remember the life you saved. May be your own. We once knew a man who was extremely wealthy and he had a wonderful system for acquiring money which we think will interest you.

He was up every morning at six, worked fourteen hours a day, seven days a week for almost twenty years. And then when he was only 45 years of age, his uncle died and left him $3 million.

Wasn't that nice? Of course, a thing like that would never happen to our friends the Anderson's, but it almost did. Yes, sir, they came awfully close to being the richest family in Springfield. Like this.

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