04x04 The Economist
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Robert Stack | As: Eliot Ness | |
Paul Picerni | As: Lee Hobson | |
Steve London | As: Jack Rossman | |
Walter Winchell | As: Narrator | |
Abel Fernandez | As: William Youngfellow |
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Chicago, the Summer of 1932. There are 12-million unemployed in the U.S.; with less money to spend, the price of booze goes down. The whiskey Syndicate is meeting; the chairman is the powerful gangster Vincent Tunis who runs the town. His 3 lieutenants suggest they hit the speaks. To make a point, Tunis demands a toothpick from his underling Charlie Grach; Tunis roughs him up, bloodies his nose, and points a gun at Charlie*-- demanding a toothpick. Charlie pleads, ""I can't give ya what I haven't got."" Tunis quips, ""Neither can the speak operators."" Vincent Tunis is The Economist: he explains the law of supply-and-demand to the Syndicate. The speak owners get 15 cents a shot for booze, that's $3 a bottle, that's $36 a case-- and the Syndicate wants $75 a case; the speak owners can't give the Syndicate what they don't have. So, Tunis will dry up the market, sending the price of booze way up-- he says, to ""20 cents, 30 cents, 50 cents: where it belongs""** Vincent Tunis rea
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Robert Stack |
Eliot Ness |
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Paul Picerni |
Lee Hobson |
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Steve London |
Jack Rossman |
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Walter Winchell |
Narrator |
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Abel Fernandez |
William Youngfellow |
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Nicholas Georgiade |
Enrico Rossi |
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