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This week, the syndicate faced the more realistic prospect of dividing up something less than $7,000, before taxes. Biggest chunk of cash came from the sale of a Chrysler sedan for $2,300. An auction of a large part of the loot (a living room suite, three rugs, a TV set, "$1,000 worth" of books, bedroom furniture, a diamond ring, wrist watch and assorted luggage), all of which was valued at nearly $9,000, brought in about $3,000. The syndicate would also be well-clad for a while: a Chicago tailoring firm had agreed to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Giveaway Fadeaway | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Stucco? Nonetheless, the average citizen is apt to want to loot around a bit, and find out what is going on and consider what his neighbors or potential neighbors think. Last week, one oi the best places in the U.S. to watch what was going on was southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Shells | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...songs like the Red Flag and the International, and all about Communist success in Russia and China." Awaiting trial in the Nueva Ecija provincial jail, he related how, before the Quezon ambush, his group had raided a convoy of ten trucks without harming anyone. "Why didn't you loot the Quezon party in the same way and let them go?" I asked. He replied with the Huk view of the class war: "People in trucks are not our mortal enemies. People in passenger cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Needed: Two Fists | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Lost Loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Instead of sending their loot to the Alt Aussee mine, their great art repository...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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