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...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...
...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...