The Independent Diamond Traders' Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (November 24, 1953)

“The Independent Diamond Traders' Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 24, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar is hired to investigate why diamond traders in New York are going out of business. When cheap diamonds flood the market at prices far below the normal rate, the independent traders of the Association begin canceling their insurance and closing shop. Dollar visits the Association's headquarters to gather information and begins to track down the source of the cut-rate stones.

New York's Diamond Row and a small hotel, during a late afternoon snowfall in the 1950s

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Eric Carlson, Mr. Moss, Susan, Hotel clerk

Listen for: The mystery of where the cheap diamonds are coming from and who is flooding the market with them to drive out the small traders

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.