Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roscoe, who is investigating the robbery, said the thieves entered both businesses through back doors, neither of which had burglar alarms. Using heavy pinch bars and crow bars, they forced open both business's safes and the book store's cash register. Then they ransacked both stores, prying open desk drawers and searching other likely places for valuables...
...SUITE containing the Collier's classroom and offices, on the ninth floor of a downtown Louisville office building, seemed like a movie mockup. Footsteps of bosses shuttling through the outer office and past its permanently vacant secretary's desk echoed the through the vaguely uninhabited rooms...
...ready for Friday dinner, the date is due in an hour, and some clown comes busting through the door with his kick-ass boots. He says he's a friend of your roommate, throws his duffel ("You don't mind if I toss my duffel up here") on the desk, then pukes...
Itkin told TIME Correspondent Sandy Smith that he had visited Voloshen in the Speaker's offices to talk over deals on five separate occasions between April 1963 and October 1966. "Voloshen would sit there, with his feet on the desk, making telephone calls all over the country," Itkin told Smith. These transactions, said Itkin, involved everything from schemes to bribe several Congressmen to purchasing land for gas stations in Florida on the advance knowledge of Army plans to build nearby...
...payoff has gone not to Shirley but to his burly friend Norman Shierlaw, an Adelaide broker, who hired him for Poseidon. A mining engineer before turning to finance last year, Shierlaw controls 8% of the company's 2.5 million shares, an amount worth $6.5 million. Sitting behind a desk littered with empty beer cans, lumps of ore, contract notes and mining magazines, Shierlaw said: "Early in the week it was champagne, but we've calmed down a bit now. Back on beer." Meanwhile, his friend Shirley, who owns an undisclosed amount of the company's stock...