Word: depots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago crime investigators rushed to St. Joseph. A microscopic comparison of scratched bullets from one of the machine guns with those found in the bodies of seven gangsters slain in the Moran whiskey depot last winter strengthened their conviction that Burke had led Chicago's famed St. Valentine's Day massacre (TIME, Feb. 25). To him are attributed at least four other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending...
...week, three cars sped up to the gate of the high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...
...duty at the Depot?were jammed into the brig with the gate guard. To them came muffled clanks and booms from above. The commanding Naval officer on duty, yanked from his bed, remembered that in the big safe on the top floor was $84,500 pay for the 300 Depot employes. For five hours robbers held the Navy's great supply base out of U. S. control...
...defense of the much maligned Harvard students, who in their efforts to protect an ungrateful public have brought down a flood of criticism upon themselves and Harvard, we wish to state that the cage is no Black Hole of Calcutta. Rather it is a depot where they await free transportation, furnished through the kindness of the Boston Police Department; their destination being the Station House where they await the arrival of their negligent parents. W. J. Henrich...
...beginning of this week Newark's municipal airport became the official air mail depot for New York City and nearby points. Hadley Field had been the terminal. The changeover was not without confusion and argument. Newark's mayor, Jerome T. Congleton, zealous for good future income on the city's $7,000,000 airport investment, demanded one cent for every pound of mail delivered to the field or sent therefrom. Pitcairn Aviation (New York-Atlantic mail) and National Air Transport (New York-Chicago mail) wished to pay a flat $600 a month fee. Mayor Congleton...