A HOME FOR AMERICA'S COLD
Workmen have been putting ■': the finishing touches during, recent weeks to a steel arid cement,vault erected at Fort Knox, Kentucky, to hold threefifths of the 10,000,000,000-dollar stock of gold of the United States. It promises to be even more impregnable than the Banks of France or England. Rising two storeys above the ground as a guard against tunnelling operations, the building will be equipped with the latest protective devices that science has devised, walls of steel coated with layers of cement, the thickness of which is a Treasury secret; pipes that will carry enough water to flood the whole building in emergency, steel plates surrounding the vaults, which will-set off deadly gas fumes as soon as a blow-torch is applied to them. But the most potent arm of defence for the gold, which: will' be taken from New York -and Philadelphia to the new depository this-summer, will be the United States Army's only mechanised cavalry unit stationed at Fort Knox. Should an epic bandit raid endanger the vault spec |/ armed.scout cars and a force of 1300 men would be ready for immediate action.
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Evening Post, Issue 17, 20 July 1936, Page 6
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188A HOME FOR AMERICA'S COLD Evening Post, Issue 17, 20 July 1936, Page 6
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