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Word: safes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the second one they locked the door to all but known customers, ordered more than $6,000 worth of bulletproof glass for tellers' windows, armored plate for the cages, time locks on the front door and the safe. The equipment didn't come until after the third robbery. The locked door alone might have prevented the third robbery, except that Director Henry Berens kindly opened the door for a stranger who was waving a $10 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Inviting Crib | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...anybody," insisted Jesse Jones, explaining his desertion to the Republicans during the November election. "I just thought we needed a change. Always takes a new set of rascals a while longer to learn the combination to the safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week, a gang of burglars attested to the value of the "love for sale" ads by breaking into the Anzeigen Zentrale, one of Stuttgart's largest billboard agencies. They not only rifled the safe but stole a batch of applicants' letters. "I wonder," mused Agency Boss Erwin Schaeuffele, "whether the burglars won't succeed in winning some of my lady applicants. Many of them are pretty desperate, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Love Wanted | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Bermuda, but I never got the chance. This was the only way . . ." And for a more solid tug at the heartstrings, there was a Harlem mother in tearful collapse after her daughter, little Carmelita Rodriguez, and her playmate had been killed by a coal truck in a "safe" play street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Abnormal | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Whether the symptoms were due to the patients' diseases or to the lithium chloride, no one could positively say-at the time. But to play safe, the FDA ordered the Foster-Milburn Co. and two other manufacturers* of similar products to take them off the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Case of trie Substitute Salt | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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