Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smoke bombs were dropped by one of the trio described as "a lean thin fellow," while another "pock-marked chap" took command of the cashiers' cage...
Four armed bandits plus a driver of their getaway car pulled a daring daylight robbery this morning of the Harvard Cooperative Society, and made a successful $50,000 robbery screened by smoke bombs and under the eyes of two Cambridge patrolmen...
...uniformed policemen stood outside the Oxford Grill and fire trucks were summoned to put out the smoke shell screen used by the felons. Curious at the speady start of the bandit car on Church Street, one, Patrolman Joseph Gould, took down the license number "for the hell...
While floor managers and sales personnel hastened to the front of the store attracted by the smoke bombs, and to summon fire trucks, two bandits methodically pinned Mr. Dupre against the wall, and covered the cashiers, Miss Estelle Sutherland of Allston, and Miss Georgie Treblis of Watertown...
...Smoke Screen...