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By the 1920s and ’30s, crime had organized and was being exacerbated by Prohibition. Law enforcement welcomed the cheap horsepower of the Ford flathead V8 in 1932, but they also needed better firepower. Most people today would be shocked by the sight of machine guns mounted on police cars, but armored and armed to the …
On a Saturday morning in September, 1934, the First National Bank in Holdrege, Nebraska, was robbed by three men carrying automatics. Customers and employees were herded behind the bank counter and ordered to line up, facing the wall, with their hands in the air. It was reported that the bandits worked with “a desperate air,” …
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