Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience, I have arrived at a few simple requirements for any country to make its way up the economic ladder...
Pine Slats. For the eventual conviction of the elusive John, the book largely credits a brilliant, scholarly xylotomist named Arthur Koehler, whose principal job was analyzing the one unmistakable clue left by the kidnaper: a crude wooden ladder that had been used to reach the nursery window. Koehler proved that the Southern pine slats in the ladder could only have been honed in one factory in South Carolina with a defective pulley on the planer, then traced the boards further to a lumberyard in The Bronx...
...gold certificate to pay for five gallons of gas. A German-born Bronx carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was quickly arrested. He denied his guilt, but in his garage police found $14,600 of the ransom money, and a slat in his attic flooring matched one section of the ladder wood that Arthur Koehler had analyzed...
...moving some pictures around that night, the gallery's elaborate electronic alarm system was not turned on until late. In the men's room, police found marks on a radiator under a window. The thief could have climbed out that window and down a workman's ladder that had been left in the courtyard, then over a 12-ft. wall and out onto Orange Street, which is all but deserted in the evening...
...morning sun had already topped the mountains edging the Kazakhstan steppes, deep in southern Russia, when Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, 26, rode to his waiting rocket in an eggshell-blue bus. Bulky in his orange spacesuit, Titov clambered up the gantry ladder and settled himself in the giant five-ton capsule perched on the rocket's nose. An attendant handed him a notebook labeled ''Log Book of the Spaceship Vostok II.'' With exaggerated care, Titov examined the pencil dangling from the log, and remembered: "Yuri Gagarin did not attach his pencil firmly and lost...