Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California's Open Door...
...South American Revolution and thus making it a successful revolution. But I am led to wonder if it is not a bit brazen and self-contradictory to get into another sphere, and in self-appointed leadership and proxy to dictate to Japan an unqualified insistence on the "open door" to China. (I often wonder, too, what China has to say about it, after...
...Four men entered Pana, Ill. early one morning last week, ate a good breakfast and then drove on to First National Bank. There they forced the janitor who was washing windows to let them in by a rear door. While one robber directed operations with a submachine gun, another made the assistant cashier open the vault. Having packed $27,600 into two suitcases, the robbers fled. Suspected was Desperado John Dillinger...
...dead of night two robbers broke into Edwardsville State Bank in Wyandotte County, Kans., fell upon the vice president as he entered in the morning, made off with $1,400. While waiting for the time lock to release the vault door, one of the robbers observed: "You know, it's a wonder that Dillinger hasn't visited this joint...
Scene of the story is a door factory in the U. S. Northwest. First part gives the slowly piling-up events of one night. The trouble started when the lights in the factory went out. The men's pay had been cut again & again. They were driven nearly frantic by the yapping inconsistency of the foreman, Carl, a self-styled efficiency expert who understood practically nothing of the factory's detail but who had been recently imported to cut costs, rush orders through. When the lights went out and the machinery stopped, Carl blamed his chief enemy, Hagen...