Word: burglarproof
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Inside Job. In Vancouver, B.C., Frank Dewey announced that he plans to market a burglarproof lock he designed while in jail...
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...
Working on the problem from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, without even taking off her hat, Miss Frick first decided that warehouses were not safe enough for Frick pictures. Before any remodeling was done at all, a fireproof, burglarproof vault was dug in the basement of the house in which every treasure was moved. Then the vault was bricked up. Doors and corridors had to be rearranged. In order to install a modern air-conditioning system the panelling in several rooms had to be taken apart piecemeal and replaced. Eighteen ten-ton blocks of marble were quarried...
...rugs were impregnated with rare perfumes. The grand ballroom was plastered with a splendid collection of French paintings. The murals were by Gabriel Ferrier. But what most impressed a Chicago still living close to the stockyards was a private elevator and the report that the huge castle was burglarproof. The doors had no outside locks, no knobs. The only way to get in was to be admitted from the inside. And Mrs. Potter Palmer saw to it that more than a knock was necessary for that...