Word: locksmithing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high price of gold and the march of science have combined to make treasure hunting a practical as well as a romantic pursuit. Last week famed Master Locksmith Charles Courtney, who rifled the safes of the sunken Egypt 400 ft. undersea (TIME, June 2, July 18), was back in Man- hattan with a sensational version of the salvaging of H. M. S. Hampshire in the North Sea. The Hampshire, victim of a German mine, went down with Earl Kitchener and some $10,000,000 in gold aboard...
Although British officials last month denied even the report that the cruiser had been located, Locksmith Courtney said that he had descended to the wreck in a new kind of duralumin diving suit which .combines flexibility with pressure resistance, had opened one safe from which was recovered ?15,000 in gold. Another dive, he related, had provided an experience he would not care to repeat. He and a companion were caught alongside the jagged wreckage by a strong tide. He was helpless in the dark green water for 40 min. Undertow bashed him against sharp steel, so dented his duralumin...
Readers who gobbled Jan Welzl's Thirty Years in the Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
...Comrade "Koba" was exiled to Siberia and little was heard of him by the locksmith's adolescent daughter until he was pardoned by the Government of Alexander Kerensky who never did the smart thing...
...Lenin called him "Stalin" (meaning "Steel") but he still had a wife. Did she die of pneumonia? Did Stalin divorce her as the story goes, "by mail"? At any rate potent Comrade Stalin, aged 40 came back to Tiflis in 1919, dazzled the 17-year-old daughter of his locksmith friend and carried her back to Moscow. Presumably he married her. Why not?" A story has it that for the first few years of their life together Stalin, the suspicious Asiatic husband, used to lock up Nadezhda Sergeivna Alliluieva in commodious rooms every morning and spend the day with...