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From now on the bootblack, the mortician, the laundry man, the upholsterer, the locksmith, the cleaner and the garageman around the corner-to mention a few-can charge no more for their services than they did last March.- OPA so ordered last week as it slapped ceilings over just about everything the law allows, brought 1,000,000 retail "commodity service" establishments and $5 billion-worth of business under price control...
Anton Drexler was a Munich locksmith who was unfit for service during World War I. He opposed trade unions, hated Marxism, believed that if Germany did not become mighty she would be ruined by international finance. In March 1918, he gathered 40 Germans into a Munich beer hall, formed the Committee of Independent Workmen. The next year they called themselves the German Workers' Party and Adolf Hitler was admitted as the seventh member of the inner cell. In 1920 the organization's name was again changed to the National Socialist German Workers' Party and Hitler began muscling...
...farm near the village of La Fleche, 165 miles southeast of Paris, and insisted on the payment of 200 francs ($6.40) of long overdue taxes. They slammed and locked the door in the impudent man's face. Back to town went the tax collector and returned with a locksmith. The locksmith had no sooner set down his bag of tools than a shot from a window wounded him severely...
...gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality are less than $12,000. We have no jail because...
Grey-haired Charles A, Courtney, master locksmith (TIME, June 18, 1932), back in the U. S. from France where he opened strongboxes containing the Spanish Bourbon jewelry, could make no estimate of the gems' value, only commented: "I do know I made enough out of the trip to buy a $50,000 collection of rare locks and keys. One of them, incidentally, is probably the oldest in the world. It was found in Pompeii and dates back...