Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, beribboned and jaunty, fresh off the boat from Japan, Colonel Murray had another, smaller key. He surrendered it to questioning Customs men. It unlocked his safe-deposit box-and out tumbled a cache of more than 500 diamonds, worth $200.,000, which he had smuggled in last year. They were, he claimed, "legitimate loot." That had an unfortunate sound; he changed it to "legitimate souvenirs." When he first went to Japan, he said, "there were jewels and precious metals hidden all over the country-diamonds by the bucketful...
That Man Again. In Minneapolis, University of Minnesota students, sick of the G.I. gag "Kilroy was here," staged a mock burial, inscribed on the tombstone: "Kilroy is here." In Caldwell, N.J., National Bank officials put up a neon sign over the entrance to the safe-deposit vault. The sign: "Kilroy was here...
...Safe Deposit. In Barranquilla, Colombia, Señora Juan Bores complained to police that her husband gave her no money for food, added that she could never rifle his pocket because he kept a snake...
...confusion of the world press. In London, the Daily Mail fell overboard, estimated the value of the loot at $2 million. U.S. papers wildly reported that two socialite women were under suspicion, and that the Duchess had stored part of her million-dollar collection in a safe-deposit vault. The Duchess regretfully denied that one: ". . . It was stupid. I've been kicking myself all over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears...
...world, has been looking for a place to hide. Last week, in the heart of Kansas, he found it. In Eureka (pop. 3,803), Babson bought a dilapidated three-story Main Street building occupied by a beer tavern and roomers. He intends to construct vaults underneath it, deposit in them the voluminous records of his wealthy clients...