Word: burglarproof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week thousands crowded the museum for a look. They were not allowed to see all the treasures at once. Skittish Director Colt had only 30 of the 600 on show. Until the museum gets a new, burglarproof wing, the rest will stay hidden in vaults at the bank...
...drain. The bars came away in his hand. He crawled in, found his lantern shining across packets of freshly printed bank notes. André thought it wise to summon his companion, Marcel Dumesnil. The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France. Swiftly they helped themselves to 25 million francs in 1,000-franc notes...