Word: brentford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated the crime, seriously wounded a British bank manager...
Britain's Sir Jocelyn Lucas, Tory M.P. for Brentford and Chiswick and part-time dog breeder, received an order for one of his female Sealyhams from a satisfied customer in Moscow who already has a male one: Soviet Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg...