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...years old and wearing my Cub Scout uniform when we were packed ! onto a train in San Jose," recalls California Democratic Congressman Norman Mineta. "People had to just padlock and walk away from their businesses -- they lost millions. After six months in a barracks at the Santa Anita Racetrack, we were sent to Heart Mountain, Wyo. We arrived in the middle of a blinding snowstorm, five of us children in our California clothes. When we got to our tar-paper barracks, we found sand coming in through the walls, around the windows, up through the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time of Agony for Japanese Americans | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

Karel Liem, Dunster House master, said he suspected the theft was an "inside job." He said that police found no signs of forced entry into the grill, and that both the grill lock and the cabinet padlock were undamaged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS IN BRIEF | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

Mayor David Dinkins dispatched 20 fresh teams last week to check on the 179 clubs that had been ordered closed. Incredibly, city law does not let inspectors immediately lock up all such places. Dinkins asked for legislation to promptly padlock any hazardous club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil Made Him Do It | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...caustic powder. When narcotics agents discovered the cache last Friday night in a warehouse in Queens, N.Y., they had to call in hazardous-waste specialists to handle the material. Total amount seized: as much as 5 1/2 tons. Only five weeks earlier, police had broken open a $6 padlock on the door of a warehouse in suburban Los Angeles and discovered 21.4 tons of cocaine, the largest U.S. cache ever grabbed. All told, authorities estimate, they will have seized 85 tons of coke this year, a 55% increase over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supply-Side Scourge | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Somerville Theatre in Davis Square reopened yesterday one week after a lease dispute prompted the building's owner to padlock its doors, but the historic cinema's operator said he may have to close permanently at the end of the year...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Somerville Theatre Reopens | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

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