The Slow Boat from China

The Columbia Broadcasting System presents... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half hour has its baggage packed to take a trip with America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar. At insurance investigation, he is just an expert.

At making out his expense account, he is an absolute genius. Spents account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar. Two home office, Oriental West, cargo bonding company San Francisco. The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my investigation of delayed cargo aboard the SS Shanghai Wayfarer or the case of the slow boat from China.

Spence account item one. A hundred and eighty one dollars and fifty two cents. Plain fare from Hartford to San Francisco in answer to your urgent call. Expense account item two, three dollars. Lunch on Fisherman's Wharf.

Financer to my stomachs urgent call. Item three, a dollar twenty. Cab fare to your office. Dollar, my name is Fundy. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before. I mean, I say it's a pleasure meeting you. It's a rough trip.

I'm going to sober. Over. I just begun. Here, darling. This is your plane ticket to Singapore. Singapore? Mm-hmm. You know, fondly, I had a choice. Really? To come to San Francisco to see you, or to take a case in Boston.

A nice old lady on Beacon Hill clubbed her husband with an early American bed-warming. But no, rather than New England broil lobster, I'd rather have San Francisco crack crab. Now all of a sudden, Singapore.

Can I ask why? Yes, we've bonded against the delay, a $120,000 car, over our ten aboard the Shanghai Wayfarer. The ship was due to sail from Singapore three weeks ago. Still out there, tied up in the Tanjong-paguad dock.