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...great vaults, although it is known that the chambers will be two stories below street level, built on bedrock below sea level. Less secretive about its vaults is Federal Reserve Bank of New York, perhaps feeling that the massiveness of its defense system would forestall any foolish foray upon it. Barrier after barrier protects the gold room which lies 85 ft. below street level, can be entered only through a 4-ft. passageway which cuts through a 9-ft. steel cylinder, a turn of which can shut it off. Outer wall below the street is 8½ ft. of steel...
...accommodate the pious duck hunters of Albuquerque, N. Mex., who foray before dawn, Father Thomas H. Bortell of San Felipe de Neri Church there, announced last week that special mass would be celebrated at 4:30 a. m. on All Saints' Day and Sundays during the duck season. Worshippers were invited to appear in gunning togs...
Last week Arthur Upham Pope, director of the Exhibition, returned to London from Persia in high feather, announced results of his foray. Concurrently was released news of the nature, extent and magnitude of the greatest Persian art exhibition ever held...
...definitely, that the purchaser was not Baltimore & Ohio but Pennsylvania R. R. Whether the Pennsylvania would keep Canton for itself or sell it to the friendly Wabash road was not announced.* It appeared evident, however, that the Pennsylvania, long opposed to Baltimore & Ohio expansion, had made a successful foray into the heart of the hostile camp...
...Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe. Mrs. Coolidge, who likes swimming, will doubtless try the mansion's blue-tiled, glass-domed swimming pool...