Word: nitroglycerin
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...When the walls were strengthened, they took to the jackscrew to force wedges between the door and the jamb. When safe doors were built with bolts that slid into the jamb on all four sides, safecrackers began blowing gunpowder around the door with an air pump. Now they use nitroglycerin, acetylene torches and power drills...
Next morning, ten days after the robbery, three youths found Dr. Covner lying dead in a patch of woods near North Reading, about 15 miles northwest of his home. A bottle of nitroglycerin tablets was found in one of his pockets, but he had left no note, and there were no signs of violence. It later developed that he had been taking nitroglycerin as a stimulant after suffering a heart attack last year. At week's end, despite an autopsy, officials were unable to determine the cause of his death...
...fire all night; Irénée's wife was permanently injured in a blast that killed 36 workmen in 1818; Lammot du Pont, father of the brothers Pierre, Lammot and Irénée, was mortally injured in 1884 while trying to "quench" some fuming nitroglycerin to avert a disaster. *Christiana, which still holds 27% of Du Pont stock, paid $200 a share for Coleman du Pont's stock. Each share of Du Pont common has since risen to a market value (counting splits) of $11,779 and has paid a total...
...years Italian police sought to discover who had sent Gualtierotti a pair of boots with nitroglycerin concealed in the hollowed-out heels. Last week police had their murderer-Gualtierotti's cousin Pier Luigi Tamburlani. Tamburlani confessed after a Rome bootmaker, interviewed by police about another case, recalled making a pair of hollow-heeled boots for Tamburlani in late 1936. Tamburlani told the bootmaker that the heels had to be hollow because the boots were intended for an official who needed a hiding place for secret documents...
...pattern; both major parties in their 1948 platforms had avowed their devotion to legislation against discrimination because of race or religion. Last week, under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday," it became obvious that the FEPC bill was going to be trucked in, like an ashcan of nitroglycerin, for consideration on the floor of the House.¶ The halls and galleries were jammed with FEPC supporters (though very few Negroes) and the floor was crowded with Congressmen when the House convened at noon. Southern Democrats and twoscore Republican allies, who had kept the bill in the wings for weeks...