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well now it's time for today's episode of yours truly Johnny Daller, the original

aired 8 March the 10th, 1951 and the title is The Stanley Springs Matter. Matter.

From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmond O'Brien as.

Johnny Dollar.

Mr. Dollar, my name is Ed Best.

I'm in the Investment Department of the Financial

Surety Company. I work for the company.

Yes, Bruce Hardwick told me about you. I have something I'd like to have you look into.

What is it?

Briefly. A few years ago, we bought controlling interest in the Stanley Springs Company

an organization in the southwest that deals in cotton and a couple of gin

I just got a letter from out there that the effect that behind the scenes the company is carrying on illegal traffic across the Mexican water.

How close a check do you keep on the outfit?

Our accountant goes out for a quarterly examination and he certainly reported nothing suspicious,

but we businessmen aren't trained to handle smuggling organizations if one does exist.

Yeah, well, training is very seldom enough, but I'll come down this afternoon talking over with you.

Edmund O'Brien in another adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account,

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