Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...darkened building in Boston's old North End, five men worked behind a wire screen, piling up plump sacks of U.S. currency with the mechanical indifference of butchers stacking daisy hams into a cooler. It was 7 o'clock-time for the Boston office of Brink's, Inc. to tot up the day's armored-truck collections and lock them in the vault for the night...
...Brink's men were told to lie down, faces to the floor; they were bound with chandler's rope, and their mouths were taped with adhesive. Then the robbers went to work, scooped Federal Reserve sacks into big white cloth bags, kicked an occasional $1,000 in coins out of the way to get at the folding money. The bandits dragged the full bags downstairs to a black car waiting on narrow Prince Street, returned for fresh loads...
Preferably Dead. Brink's executives offered $100,000 reward for the bandits dead or alive, preferably dead. The Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd., of London prepared to make up all the losses, offered an additional reward of 5% of all money recovered. The FBI flooded the U.S. with serial numbers on $98,900 worth of the stolen bills...
Stealing money from Brink's is a lot easier than stealing exams from the University Press, so you might as well go back to studying or planning your next holdup...
...second thought, you might try marrying one of the proofreaders--or Miss Brink...