Word: bank
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Time was when the bank robber was the prince of professional criminals. But nowadays, it seems, the rankest amateurs can knock over a bank-and a remarkable number of them are trying it. In 1932, the bank-heisting heyday of John Dillinger and his ilk, there were only 606 bank robberies in the U.S. Last year the FBI reported a record number of 1,250, and the pace is even faster...
...reason for the outbreak is the proliferation of branch banks, many of them lightly guarded, in U.S. suburbs. It is, therefore, almost inevitable that the highest number of bank holdups is in that state of sprawling suburbia-California. So far this year, there have been 103 bank robberies just in Los Angeles County, an average of two for every three banking days. The holdup men average $6,000-and receive an average seven years in jail if caught. Federal Judge Thurmond Clarke sentences two or three each week in his Los Angeles court. Some 90% of the robbers are amateurs...
Typical of the California heisters was Lynne Kilpatrick Swisher, 18, who stuck up a Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco, got away with $456, but turned herself in a week later. She had used the money for a trip to Hawaii and told cops: "It was worth five years in jail to me. I've had a wonderful vacation, a real ball...
...been abandoned. U.S. Ambassador Ben Stephansky persuaded President Paz to adopt a program calling for a 65% increase in Bolivian tin production by 1967. To obtain funds for modernizing the mines, Comibol entered into a three-cornered aid pact, called "Operation Triangular," with the U.S., the Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany. In return for $38 million in aid, Comibol undertook to operate its mines more efficiently and to drop 6,000 men from its 26,000-man work force...
...Honolulu waterfront for one acre over looking San Francisco's Union Square, where the aging Plaza Hotel will be razed for an office building. The corporation intends to build a $26 million, 43-story office building on the downtown lands of San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank. On the shores of California's Lake Tahoe, the Dillinghams are involved in a joint venture to create 725 acres of man-made waterfront properties for vacation homes...