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Business Movers

Wondery

History, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

With the help of a former World War Two spy named Paul Helliwell, Walt Disney fights to keep Project Future out of the papers as he navigates a local labyrinth of closed door deals, nosy politicians and intrepid reporters. But Walt’s biggest secret isn’t Project Future—it’s a private battle he’s fighting with his own body.

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0:00.0	1. It's a sunny afternoon at an office in Orlando, Florida in 1965.
0:20.0	On one side of a desk sits Billy Dial, a powerful Orlando banker.
0:24.3	On the other side, Paul Hellowel, the Miami lawyer secretly working with Walt Disney on Project
0:30.1	Future.
0:31.1	He's also a former World War II spy.
0:34.0	Hellowel has been sent to Billy Dial's office on important business,
0:37.0	and one of the many things Hellowel learned as a spy was how to keep a secret.
0:41.0	Wow, come on, who are you working for?
0:44.0	I can't tell you that, Bill.
0:46.0	Well, I hate to break it to you, pal, but the war is over.
0:48.0	You're a lawyer now.
0:49.0	Look, a big industry wants to come into Florida,
0:52.0	and that's all I can say.
0:53.7	I can't tell you who it is.
0:55.4	It's top secret.
0:56.4	Automobiles?
0:57.6	No common.
0:58.6	Airplanes.
0:59.6	No comment.
1:00.6	Come on you got to give me something. But Hellowel can't share the real purpose of the land his client is buying up all over Central Florida, so he plays his cards close to his vest.
1:11.0	This is something that any town in Florida would give its right arm to get. I can't say any more, but there is a problem. Okay, I'm listening.
1:20.0	My client has already purchased large parcels of land, but there are still several smaller plots we're working to acquire.
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