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The Clinton Matter - Ep 1

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · March 12, 1956 · 14 min · 1,956 words

The transcript of “The Clinton Matter - Ep 1”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast March 12, 1956. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar plays Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar mr. John dollar yes Western Union. I have a message for you from New York. Oh Please proceed Northern Hotel Clinton, Colorado as soon as possible. Yeah building irregularities suspected affecting several insurance companies We'll advise regardsator United Adjustment Bureau, New York, New York. Uh-huh. No. No. Don't bother. Can you take an answer?

Go ahead. To Albert Davies, Chief Investigator, United Adjustment Bureau, you have the address, confirming exact time of arrival to follow. Sign that Johnny Dollar. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator, Johnny Dollar, to the United Adjustment Bureau, New York City, New York. following as an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Clinton matter, or maybe racket is a better word.

Expense account first item, $105.63, transportation by Air Hartford to Denver. Item 2, $28.50, Denver to Grand Junction. A place busy and bustling with uranium hopefuls. Third expenditure, $100. Deposit and rental on a car, which I use to drive the 105 miles through the rugged mountains due north of Grand Junction to Clinton, Colorado.

A place that the rental agents had described as a sleepy little mountain town. When I got there everybody was running in the direction of what was very shortly not going to be the new school building.

Like everybody else in Clinton, Colorado, I spent the next three hours or so helping to try and get the fire and the control. Then finally I left the scene and located the Northern Hotel where the clerk was standing by waiting for me.

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