Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...henchmen padded about the place in stocking feet, learning which way each door swung, locating the main vaults, honing their strategy. In their exacting research, the gang broke into a burglar-alarm company one night, and carefully studied the Brink's alarm system. Every lock barrel on every door along their route through the Brink's building was removed by the gang during their nightly visits, fitted with keys, and reinstalled in the doors before morning with such skill and skulduggery that nothing was suspected. An awed detective who listened to Specs O'Keefe's story...
Roll out the barrel...
...have a barrel...
...300B, a new version of last year's 300, which won the 1955 national stock-car association championship averaging 127 m.p.h. With two four-barrel carburetors and a 9:1 compression ratio, the 300B engine is rated at 340 h.p., 40 h.p. more than last year, making it the highest-powered production-line model in the industry. Price: $3,997. The Fury, which uses basically the same shell as the two-door Plymouth hardtop, but is an inch lower and has a 240 h.p. V-8 engine, instead of the regular 200 h.p. engine...
...archives in Washington and "a final scraping of the barrel at the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park," the State Department last week released 43 more documents pertaining to the Yalta Conference of 1945. The 43 documents did not add "significantly," said State, to the Yalta record published earlier this year (TIME, March 28). But they did add some interesting new evidence of how some U.S. delegates comported and deluded themselves in the closing months of World War II, how they bartered principle for the illusion of postwar friendship with the Communists...