Word: locksmithing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...highest Treasury officers are supposed to know its make-up before it is "opened" in the House of Commons. Until the moment of delivery it is kept locked in an ancient red morocco budget box. To be sure that the box will open at the right moment, a Government locksmith calls annually on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to oil the lock and fiddle with...
...come home and talk her arm off." Husband Goodenough was in Fairbanks, Alaska where officers of the First National Bank have been having trouble with their vault. To service their equipment, they summoned Mr. Goodenough, of Covington's Mosler Lock Co. To Chicago, to Manhattan, even to Cuba, Locksmith Goodenough has traveled, has watched jammed doors swing open at the touch of his skilled fingers. While on his way to Fairbanks he stopped off at Helena, Montana, worked on the balky lock of a vault in the Federal Reserve Bank. No locksmith west of the Mississippi had been able...