Johnny Dollar -- Dead First Helpers
Thomas Paine Podcast
mike moore
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmund O'Brien as... Johnny Dollar. This is Bill Hutchard, Johnny. Grand Industrial Assort. Remember? How could I forget? Who's the assembly line busted down this time? It's steel, Johnny. Cornel's steel, Pittsburgh. Lots of soap-call accidental deaths from the open-house furnaces. Frankly, it's maxed mud murder to me. Could be hot work, or bring my sweatshirt. |
| 0:22.9 | When's the next plane for smoke, bill? |
| 0:31.1 | Edmund O'Brien, in another transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense |
| 0:35.9 | account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:39.6 | Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. |
| 0:49.3 | Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar 2, Great Industrial Assurance |
| 0:56.4 | Corporation of America, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of my expenditure |
| 1:00.8 | during investigations of the dead first helper. Expense account, item 1, $83.24 |
| 1:09.5 | plane pair to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:12.0 | A land of chimneys and open-hawks furnaces, where I met supervisor Joel Barrett. |
| 1:19.5 | Five men in a single month, Mr. Dollar. All of them, first helper. |
| 1:24.5 | What's the first helper? |
| 1:25.7 | Well, it goes like this. The milter foreman is in charge of a number of furnaces. |
| 1:30.3 | The first helper is in charge of an individual furnace. |
| 1:33.6 | Under him are the second helpers and the cinder snaps. |
| 1:36.2 | I see. |
| 1:37.2 | Well, how did the deaths occur? |
| 1:38.7 | In a number of ways, one man tumbled down a flight of stairs. |
| 1:41.8 | Two were killed by a crane magnet. |
| 1:45.2 | Another one fell from the pouring platform, and just last week one of our best men was killed in an explosion of a hot cap mold. |
| 1:51.2 | You better explain that one. Certain types of steel have to be capped after they've been poured |
| 1:56.3 | from the ladle to the ingot, you see. Sometimes the pressure is so great inside of them that when the |
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