Firebug
The Shadow · June 19, 1938 · 28 min · 4,579 words
The transcript of “Firebug”, an episode of The Shadow first broadcast June 19, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Shadow free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows. Ladies and gentlemen, the shadow is an exciting adventure starts in a moment. But right now, motorists, I have the biggest, the most exciting years you've heard since the days of the first pneumatic tire.
It's all about the tire sensation of 1938. The new Goodrich takes this over town with the amazing lightsaber tray. This new kind of tire is utterly different in appearance, design and action than anything you've ever seen or felt.
At the first sign of a skid, it turns the wet road under your car into a dry track and stops you quicker, safer than you've ever stopped before. Hard to believe? Just listen to this startling proof.
An exhaustive road test made by the largest independent testing laboratory in the country Against regular and premium price tires of America's sixth largest tire manufacturers, no tire tested, regardless of price, came up to this new tire in non-skid action.
These severe tests, made over a three-month period, also proved that the Silver Town gave more non-skid mileage than any of the other tires tested in its own price range. Average 19.1% more miles before the tires wore smooth.
You'll never know what the word stops really means until you felt the grip of the new Silvertown on a wet slippery road. For safety tape, make your next set of tires, Goodrich. Feld G-O-O-D-R-I-C-8. Goodrich, safety Silvertown.
A shadow, Le Mans-Cranton, a man of wealth, a student of science, and a master of other people's minds devote his life to writing wrong, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty. Using advanced methods that may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies, Cranston is known to the underworld as a shadow, never seen only hers as haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost,
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