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Torrid Zone
Screen Guild Theater · January 25, 1942 · 30 min · 5,098 words
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This is Paulette Garden. George Raif. George Tobias. And Jack Carson. Screen Guild Theatre. Presenting tonight, Tored Zone. And here is your host, the director of the star's own theatre, Roger Pryor. The Gulf Oil companies in your neighborhood good Gulf dealers welcome you once again to the Gulf Screen Guild Theatre.
It's an unusually warm welcome tonight for our plays that sizzling Warner Brothers comedy about two men and a girl in the tropics, Tored Zone. Starred in power zone, you'll hear George Rath, Paulette Goddard, Jack Carson and George Tobias.
In just a moment, we'll take you to a little country in Central America where things happen and happen fast. But before we make that journey, I'd like to say a word about another country where big things are happening these days.
You know, Sunday is a traditional day of rest for Americans. Yet in many factories throughout the nation at this moment, men are working and machines are busy. America has turned her mighty force from peace production to war production, so that peace may someday return to the world.
In this tremendous effort the nation's oil industry has an essential part to play. It must provide industry with fuels and lubricants to keep America's weapons rolling off the assembly lines in a steady, irresistible stream.
It must supply the ships and tanks and planes as they go into battle. Golf is contributing substantially to this, the nation's most important job, and golf was prepared for this effort. Because for years, golf scientists and engineers have been constantly improving the fuels and lubricants needed for complex modern machinery.
That's also why golf is ready to carry on its other job, that of meeting its long-standing obligation to American car owners. So you may be sure that while golf will continue to play its part in filling the nation's your family and other families who depend on their cars will always be able to get
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