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...program gave details on how to snatch 75 Gs' worth of diamonds," he said. "Another showed how to 'case' a bank for a 50-6 stickup. Another told how to blackmail recently widowed women out of 5 or 10-Gs apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Crime Reporter | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...each case the police solved the crime, but, Nash pointed out: "These teen-agers (your kids) are constantly being shown that if they aren't as stupid as that very, very dumb and ignorant criminal portrayed on the radio (who got the 75 Gs, but got caught in a two-way radio police trap), that he, the teenager, could easily get away with it ... Lights flash on; bells ring; he visualizes $75,000 stacks of greenbacks stashed in his bureau drawer. He says to himself, 'It's about time somebody with a little intelligence went after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Crime Reporter | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...expert had testified that the State Department documents had been typed on the Hiss typewriter; he could tell by the formations of the letter "G" for example. "You can look at all the 'Gs' you want," Stryker snorted, "they look good to me." He airily dismissed Mrs. Chambers' detailed testimony of homely intimacies between the two families. "You remember her," he said scornfully. "She sat there waving her hands as though she were priming a pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...mayor and the village clerk were both away when sleek, dark-suited Willem Johannes Janse van Rensburg rolled importantly into dusty Hennenman in a big car marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Great Impersonation | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Gs a pilot's body weighs ten times as much as normally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prone Pilot | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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