Word: pouched
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...clique of thieves in India have in their throats pouches in which they hide small but precious loot. Pressed into military service, such pouched thieves serve as carriers of small documents. They develop their throat pouches by partially swallowing a pellet tied to a string. The training begins in childhood, continues for years with a bigger and bigger pellet, until a useful pouch takes shape...
With so much agitation against short-selling it was becoming apparent last week that the New York Stock Exchange would have to make some move itself or else run the risk of very drastic impositions upon it. One fair-sized member firm, Pouch & Co., announced it would no longer lend stocks to bears because, while shortselling helps a normal market, it is "utterly immoral and unwarranted" in a crisis. This attitude was not, however, officially that of the Exchange...
...Salem, N. J., William McCausland, paymaster of Salem Glass Works, saved the company's $5,000 payroll when three thugs shot him, attempted to wrest the money-pouch away. He fell, rolled upon it. Workmen found him dead...
...bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters inside to soften...
...will use the pouch for valuable express shipments. One drawback to adoption of the bag by the Post Office is its weight?20 Ib. as compared to the present 6-lb. type...