The Yankee Pride Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 14, 1950)

“The Yankee Pride Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 14, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to Singapore to investigate the delayed cargo ship Yankee Pride, which is losing money for tri-state insurance at 2% per day. He discovers that the insurance company's local adjuster, a young Chinese man named Kufo Sun, has been mysteriously killed while investigating the ship, and now Dollar must uncover whether the death and the ship's mechanical troubles are connected or merely coincidence.

Singapore, 1950; the tri-state insurance office, the East Docks where the Yankee Pride is berthed, and Ben Coolant Street in the native quarters

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Carl Bush, Mr. L's, Kufo Sun, Kufo Sun's brother, the Chief Engineer, the Rickshaw driver

Listen for: The developing mystery surrounding the dead adjuster's connection to a Malayan woman and the threatening stranger who visited Kufo Sun's brother before the police; the ship's unexplained mechanical troubles with bearings and generators

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.