Word: solely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transfer money, had written six coded wires, had fraudulently added the six Denver signatures. Banks customarily act upon these coded telegrams without checking back on them. Given a knowledge of the code and a willingness to misuse it, there was no great difficulty in working the $500,000 fraud. Sole precaution on the part of the defrauder was that the money should be collected before the trickery was discovered...
Four snorting speedboats, at the starter's gun, skittered and skimmed away over the Shrewsbury River at Red Bank, N. J., one day last week. One broke a rudder. One turned a flipflop. One's motor languished. Sole survivor was the Imp, owned and driven by Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (Hayden Stone & Co., director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power...
...Matches (box) 8? 20? 20? Milk (gal.) 2½? 5? 6½? Peanuts on Shelled (lb.) 4? 7? 4? Pig Iron (ton) 75? $1.12½ $1.50 Pork (lb.) ¾? 2½? 2½? Potatoes (cwt.) 50? 75? 75? Poultry, dead (lb.) 6? 8? 10? Shingles Free 25% Free Sole Leather Free 12½% 15% Sugar Cane (ton) $1 $3 $2 Sugar (Cuban, lb.) 1.76? 2.40? 2.20? Sugar (world, lb.) 2.20? 3? 2.75? Tomatoes (lb.) ½? 3? 2½? Wheat (bush.) 30? 42? 42? Woolen Rags...
...room were many clues. The detectives took fingerprints, found that the assailant had changed from his own blood-spattered clothes to Mr. Eaton's, had left behind a razor and a block of wood. Although $4,000 had been stolen Scotland Yard did not think robbery was the sole motive. It was announced that two men were being trailed for "causing grievous bodily injuries." One J. Moore, 22, surrendered himself and was charged with deserting the Army, held for further questioning. The other, Roland Bateman, 22, also a suspected deserter, was more elusive. Detectives in a radio-equipped automobile...
...into a chain. He also acquired Iowa farm land. When he died his sons inherited the banks and 10,000 acres of land. Clyde Brenton has no children of his own, so he adopted Harold, his nephew, who, now 30, married and father of two children, is the sole heir to the Brenton fortune. Harold's hobby is the Iowa Young Men's Christian Association. He is to be vice president of the new bank, his father the president...