Jet Stream
Suspense · December 1, 1957 · 25 min · 3,160 words
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suspense. And the producer of radios outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. The story you are about to hear concerns a murderer, a murderer and his accomplices. One of the accomplices is innocent because it is a blind, brainless phenomenon of which scientists know little except that it does exist. This accomplice
is a freak of nature which lives high in the stratosphere. It altitudes sometimes too great for commercial airliners, but it altitudes less and less challenging to military jets. It is a narrow river of wind.
Sometimes it dries up like a creek in summer. But at the flood, its velocity is incredible. It has been clocked at 200 miles per hour. And just as a river will add its own speed to the efforts of an oarsman stroking downstream, this torrent of air adds its velocity to an eastbound plane
clever enough to find the current. This river of wind is called the jet stream. This is the story of how it sped a murderer from his crime. Listen, listen then as Frank Lovejoy stars in jet stream, which begins in exactly one minute.
Can you recognize this American symbol of heroism? It is a golden laurel wreath embroidered on a square of cloth, worn centered on the outside of the right uniform sleeve. of the laurel wreath up, with the lower edge of the insignia four inches above the end of the sleeve. This emblem represents the meritorious unit
commendation, awarded for outstanding service and exceptionally meritorious conduct in military operations against an armed enemy, for a period of six months or more. The action sighted must have occurred on or after January 1, 1944. The campaign streamer for the Meritorious Unit Commendation is Scarlet, with the name of the Theater of Operations embroidered in
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