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Show Aladdin's Cave of Gold Is Elaborately Guarded Probably the greatest accumulation accumula-tion of wealth since the world began be-gan is housed at Fort Knox, Ky., where the government has cached its gold reserves .in an impregnable impreg-nable fotress of concrete and steel. The actual storage space is 10,000 square feet in area, and the gold is placed in a giant safe 40 feet by 64 feet. , The most elaborate precautions have been taken to protect this wealth: nests of machine-guns, gas guns, ray devices, and a system sys-tem of mirrors so cunningly devised de-vised that not one inch of space is overlooked. These precautions are eminently necessary, for the value of the gold stored there is nine billion dollars! No gangster or gang, however powerful and clever, will be able to approach without giving ample warning of their movements, for sensitive microphones, warning bells, lights, and sigal drops will give them away. But even if they penetrated so far, a barrage of artillery calculated to wipe out a small army would anihilate them. |