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The Dead First-Helpers
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · April 11, 1950 · 29 min · 4,550 words
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From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmund O'Brien as... Johnny Daller. This is Bill Hudson, Johnny. Grand Industrial Assorts. Remember? How could I forget? Who's assembly line busted down this time? It's Theo, Johnny. Corneal Steel Pittsburgh. Lots of so-called accidental deaths on the open heart furnaces.
Frankly, it smacks the mudder than me. Could be hot work. I'll bring my sweatshirt. When's the next plane for smoke fill? Edmond O'Brien in another transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account.
America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Great Industrial Assurance Corporation of America, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of the dead first helpers.
Expense account item one. Eighty three dollars and twenty four cents plain fare to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A land of chimneys and open-hearted furnaces where I met supervisor Joel Barrett. I've been in a single month, Mr. Dollar.
All of them first helpers. What's the first helper? Well, it goes like this. The melter foreman is in charge of a number of furnaces. The first helper is in charge of an individual furnace. Under him are the second helpers in the cinder snaps. I see. Well, how did the deaths occur? In a number of ways, one
man tumbled down a flight of stairs. Two were killed by a crane magnet. Another one fell from the pouring flat form. And just last week, one of our best men was killed in an explosion of a hot cap mower. You better explain that one. And certain types of steel have to be capped after they've been poured from the later to the end. You see, sometimes
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