Word: nitroglycerin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Police searched the Dane house. It was a residential fortress. Its arsenal contained two machine guns, numerous rifles, automatics, tear gas bombs, bottles of nitroglycerin. A trapdoor under a rug led to a hidden room with an emergency exit. In a closet were found bonds worth $319,850, part of which were identified as loot from a recent Jefferson, Wis., bank robbery. Questioning "Mrs. Dane," officers learned that Dane was none other than Fred Burke, alias Thomas Brook, alias "Cornbread" Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, deadliest of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's Chicago gangsters...
...Frequently, when an oil well seems exhausted, oil men enliven it by exploding a charge of nitroglycerin in its depths. tA subsidiary of the Mellon family's Gulf Oil Co. William Larimer Mellon is president of Gulf Oil, chairman of Gypsy...
...Lexington, Ky., one pint of nitroglycerin stood at the mouth of an oil shaft. A dog drank it. Workmen ran for their lives. Stimulated by his draft, the loaded cur pursued a rabbit. The rabbit leaped down a bank. Jumping after it, the dog exploded...
Last week he called nitroglycerin to his aid in an attempt to get out. Just as he was about to touch off an ill considered charge which would have blown the jail and himself to atoms, he was shot at by a prison guard, and several other prosiners were wounded before he was killed...
...efficiency of a fragile flask of Lewisite* they had had installed in the vault by a Chicago firm. Other bankers hastened to ask questions, order flasks of Lewisite for their own protection. Other yeggs scowled at the thought of having to add to their equipment-jimmy, "soup" (nitroglycerin), oxyacetylene blowtorch - a gas mask of exceedingly high impenetrability...