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This Is Your FBI: Larceny Goes to Sea

This Is Your FBI · January 27, 1950 · 29 min · 4,157 words

The transcript of “Larceny Goes to Sea”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast January 27, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays This Is Your FBI free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Equitable Life-Acholens Society presents This is your FBI! This is your FBI! This is your FBI! The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Transcribed and presented as a public service by the Equitable Life-Acholens Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

Today some of your neighbors, perhaps you yourself, receive postcards from an equitable society representative. The men and women who receive these postcards should be pleased to hear that they were sent to people classified as most likely to succeed. The kind of people who are sure to be interested in the equitable society's plan for men and women on the way up.

In about 14 minutes I'll give you full details on this special plan for people who are slated for success. It is offered by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States. United FBI file, larceny goes to sea. Geography makes a difference in people.

Not deep down, for all of us are one breed in the last analysis. But it is true that the farmer in Kansas looks at life a little differently than the factory worker in Georgia or the fisherman in any desolate village on one of our secluded coastlines.

Of the three, probably the citizen in the small fishing village is the one with whom city dwellers have the least in common. For him the tides are not cap hazard movements of the ocean. The water is not an inanimate thing, and the weather is more than just a topic of conversation. The tides tell him which way schools of fish are moving. The water

is alive, is his friend, or his enemy, and it gives him his livelihood, or refuses him his daily breath, and the weather. The daily fluctuations on his barometer that tell him whether or not he can fly his plate that day. The sudden storm that comes and wrecks his boats, his home, his dreams. Yes, even the young know that good weather can bring fortune

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