Word: strongboxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assistants, "but these are not normal times." The treasury was still running on a hand-to-mouth basis, collecting $2,500,000 a day in taxes, much of it in advance. One unexpected windfall: $3,270,170 in bonds and cash, left behind in a strongbox by Batista...
...came across a strongbox full of letters in the trunk of our car. The letters were from a married woman who is in love with my husband. They are so full of mush and love talk it would nauseate you. Should I send the letters to HER husband and let him handle...
Lyon was no mere horseshoe man; he had a devil of a way with all sorts of ironwork, including intricate locks. Once he was commissioned to build a strongbox and did the job with customary thoroughness. Being disappointed in his fee, Lyon snapped the box shut. Since no one else could reopen it, the box stayed shut until Lyon got double pay. Lyon's growing reputation finally got him into trouble. A Philadelphia bank had been robbed, and people said nobody could have got past its locks and bars except Blacksmith Lyon, who had recently repaired them. Protesting manfully...
Hard Times. In Grand Rapids, Mich., police looked for the burglar who broke into Hendricks Supply Co., knocked the dial off the safe but failed to open it, broke into an office next door but failed to force the strongbox, rifled a cigarette machine in a nearby service station, made off with a few coins...
...Cashier Thomas B. Lloyd's mouth, asked him what it was. Lloyd said that it was another Brink's employee. The newcomer was admitted to the vault, bound and gagged with the others. As they were leaving with their bulging bags, the gang noticed a large, locked strongbox. They debated taking it along, decided against it. Later, in the newspapers, they learned that the strongbox contained another $1,000,000 in cash, the General Electric payroll...