Monday, Aug. 01, 1932

Uniform

So elaborate are the precautions taken by armored car services against theft that, in big banking centres, movements of money and securities are taken casually (TIME, July 18). Into Manhattan's Chemical Bank & Trust Co. last week walked a man in the uniform of a guard of U. S. Trucking Corp. He told the teller he had "come for the money for the Federal Reserve." The teller handed him $56,325, scarcely looked at the receipt. The money was seen no more. Police scanned the records of former employes of U. S. Trucking Corp.

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