Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nine sailors were injured when fire broke out in the boiler room of the U.S.S. Monongahela as it cruised near Spain...
Never mind that the hot stove league sounded more like a pot boiler with stories of the Wade Boggs extramarital affair. The opening pitch in the 51 degree chill had the atmosphere of a fall playoff and the cheers--even for Boggs--from the sellout crowd seemed to indicate that the team's dismal start was forgotten, if only...
Fraudulent telemarketers are particularly hard to catch because they tend to keep their operations small. The typical setup is a "boiler room" in which a dozen or more employees reading from sales scripts feverishly work the phones, contacting hundreds of potential victims a day. Thousands of boiler rooms are located in the Sunbelt states stretching from Florida to California. At one point, so many sprang up in part of Fort Lauderdale that federal investigators dubbed the area "Maggot Mile...
...Boiler-room operators in Nevada and California begin the day as early as 5 a.m., calling people on the East Coast. Then they work their way westward, taking advantage of the changing time zones to make the maximum number of calls. Consumers who call back with questions are invariably told that the salesman is in a meeting. Once stung, many victims are deluged with other offers. Reason: boiler rooms sell sucker lists to one another...
...elude detection by local authorities, these operations usually solicit only out-of-state targets. On rare occasions local officials are alerted by complaints from distant victims and manage to track the money trail back to the boiler room. But the crooks typically flee across state lines and start all over again...