Word: strongroom
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...said he takes the documents he needs each day from double-locked file cabinets inside a strongroom. "We've been warned within an inch of our lives not to talk," he said. "It's an intimidating place...
After breaking through a 4½-ft.-thick wall into the strong room, the thieves used their jacks to move a five-ton safe that stood in their way. Then, with their six torches, they attacked the strongroom safes. Among the spoils they found were the entire weekend receipts from Nice's biggest department stores and the bank's ready cash for the following week. In the safe deposit boxes they discovered the items that might be expected on the French Riviera: gold, silver, jewelry, bonds, rare stamps and paintings. At least one box contained a portfolio...
...pilgrims were gathering for last week's festival of Shaab-e-Baraat when the sorrowful news crackled from houseboat to houseboat, from hut to hut. The guard on duty at Hazrat Bal (literally Majestic Place) had left his post long enough for thieves to saw out the strongroom locks, smash the cabinet and make their getaway. The prophet's hair was gone...
...diameter, will be shipped to New York by rail. As the greatest care has to be used in moving these lenses, even though they are most securely packed and protected, Mr. Willard P. Gerrish will accompany them to New York and see them put safely into the steamer's strongroom, where they will remain until the steamer is met at Mollendo, Peru. The telescope will be shipped on the "Condor" of the Merchants Line around South America through the Straits of Magellan to Peru. It is sent this roundabout way to avoid the handling of the lenses by inexperienced hands...
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