Word: blowtorched
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...efficiency of a fragile flask of Lewisite* they had had installed in the vault by a Chicago firm. Other bankers hastened to ask questions, order flasks of Lewisite for their own protection. Other yeggs scowled at the thought of having to add to their equipment-jimmy, "soup" (nitroglycerin), oxyacetylene blowtorch - a gas mask of exceedingly high impenetrability...