Word: locked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MURDERS AT SCANDAL HOUSE- Peter Hunt - Appleton-Century ($2). There were too many members of the ill-assorted family, when they gathered to lock a skeleton more firmly in a closet; they began to die, one by one. The 'legger-undertaker had five corpses to lay out before an easy-going gentleman-policeman really laid the ghost...
...Commissioner Wasson ordered Arkansas banks to keep only enough cash on hand to make change, to require customers needing larger sums to give advance notice so cash can be brought from reserve banks. Furthermore he ordered each bank to keep 85% of its cash in its vaults under time lock; when the vault was open to keep the bank's doors locked or have two armed guards stationed at the doors until the time lock was reset. Object: to bring down the high cost of holdup insurance...
...Glens Falls, N. Y., Harry Caswell, handcuffed to the wheel of an automobile in a 100-hour driving endurance test, drove into a barn to avoid a rainstorm. The backfire of his motor set ten tons of hay ablaze. As the flames licked at his clothes, he picked the lock of his manacles with a hairpin, escaped...
...elevated railway, a vast and gloomy pergola rising to meet the rungs of blackened fire escapes which hang from the buildings like the foliage of a fantastic iron jungle. No. 63 Allen Street, near the corner of Grand, is a large green-painted wooden door with a rusty lock and bar. Above some ash cans floats a white hand in eerie benediction. Beneath the hand is painted: E. A. RIDLEY, Sub-Basement...
Chicken thieves broke into Socialist Norman Thomas' chicken houses in Huntington. L. I., and took 50 of the 100 hens which Mrs. Thomas raises to supply eggs for her Manhattan tearoom. Socialist Thomas, who favors equitable distribution of wealth, put a stout lock on the chicken house...