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...short answer is that vanning has become an American craze. Vanning? To van once meant to ship freight in a certain way. Today it also means to personalize a common van and build a life-style around it. Throngs of Americans are doing it. Some 2 million vans are in use today, and the auto industry is cheerily convinced that it will sell another 570,000 this year...
Police believed that "the great piggy-bank robbery," as Paris papers called the heist, was almost certainly an inside job. Whoever masterminded the theft first had to know that the Administration des Monnaies et Medailles, which mints French coins, frequently ships them as ordinary freight, on the theory that transporting cash anonymously is safer than using armed guards. Next he had to know how and when last week's consignment was due to be transferred from the administration's plant in Pessac, outside Bordeaux, to the Bank of France in Paris. That intelligence was even more strictly guarded...
...reported frauds have been enormous. The biggest to date was the $2 billion Equity Funding scandal of 1973, in which 22 insurance company employees were convicted of inventing some 56,000 fake policies for resale to other insurance companies. Other binary burglars programmed Penn Central computers to divert 277 freight cars to an obscure Illinois railroad siding, where both cargo and cars were plundered. An electronics expert aged 19 gained access to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph terminals and managed to order $1 million worth of supplies over nearly two years...
...almost a year, the Scheersberg A carried out normal freight duties in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Meanwhile, construction of five missile and torpedo gunboats purchased by Israel neared completion in the French port of Cherbourg. The boats were paid for by Israel, but France had halted all military trade with Arabs and Israelis. On Nov. 17, 1969, five weeks before the Israelis seized the gunboats, the Scheersberg A crew was again told that the ship had been sold. A new crew came aboard, and another mystery voyage began. Port records show that the ship left Almeria, Spain, for a course...
...windfall. Hays T. Watkins, chairman of the Chessie System, the nation's largest coal hauler, expects 100 new mines to open along the line's routes in the next five years. That would add 33 million tons a year to the system's coal freight, 50% more than its present volume. All that will require more coal cars and enhance the revenues of railroad-equipment manufacturers like Pullman...