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...turn out that way. Just a short stroll from 221B Baker Street, London, where Sherlock Holmes once dwelt, a bold gang broke through the floor of a closed handbag shop, dug a 40-ft. tunnel, and cut through two feet of concrete into a vault containing about 1,000 safe-deposit boxes in Lloyds Bank at 185 Baker Street. It was a case similar to the episode in which Holmes captured two tunneling bank crooks in A. Conan Doyle's The Red-Headed League -"a three-pipe problem," as Dr. Watson would have called it. But although policemen could...
...financial solidity of many brokerages. An investor, says the spokesman, should ask his banker about the solvency of his broker. The customer might also demand a financial statement from his broker. And he would be well advised to take his securities from the broker and put them in a safe-deposit box. The exchange contends that 97% of its members are sound and only 3% face potential trouble. That raises just one question: Which...
...disputed campaign contributions had been Baker's-not, as Bobby had testified previously, a West Coast S & L executive's. More helpful was T. Edward Morris Jr., an official of Washington's National Savings & Trust Co., who said that Kerr had made visits to his safe-deposit box, number G-302, on Oct. 22 and Nov. 5, 1962-dates on which Baker, according to his earlier testimony, had turned money over to Kerr...
...died aboard a Greyhound bus in Pennsylvania last March at the age of 67, Kruse was homeward bound from a genealogical mission to the New York Public Library. He had good reason to have given considerable thought to his probable heirs. When a Grand Haven bank opened his safe-deposit box after his death, it found securities worth...
...since they were widely introduced during the Civil War. They have been so persistent for many years, however, that less than half the U.S. population remember a time when they did not have to pay such taxes on scores of everyday goods and services, from autos to leases on safe-deposit boxes. Now the biggest excise-tax cut in U.S. history is speeding through Congress...