Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oddly enough, news of the wholesale frauds never got beyond the locker rooms until last December, when a group of indignant workers quietly laid the whole thing before postal authorities. Fortnight ago, Boston's Chief Post Office Inspector Tennyson Jefferson and 42 inspectors swooped down on the annex. Though they had picked a bad night (business was slack because of the railroad strike), they found 28 time cards punched for men who never showed up, and enough evidence to convince them that the Government had been bilked out of between $4 and $5,000,000 in the last four...
While 275 undergraduates were playing basketball on the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building last night, a thief, presumed to be an undergraduate, quietly emptied wallets in the locker room below...
...Rationing Yet. On the price front also, the freeze was just the beginning. Said Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, ex-chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "Prices have not gone into the deep-freeze locker but just into the kitchen refrigerator, where the kids come in and open the door every time they want a snack...
After the game the crowd came to life. One group promptly stormed the umpire's quarters, forcing mounted police to form a guard for his withdrawal and motorcycle police to escort him from the city. Another group surrounded the locker rooms for two hours, screaming for the coach's blood. A third, and still larger party, marched back into town and held up traffic until 9 p.m., as they demonstrated their disapproval in front of the League headquarters...
Cold Comfort. In Rochester, George R. Schiemer of the State Frozen Food Locker Association cheerfully announced that "one of the safest places to be in the event of an atomic explosion" is in a frozen-food locker...