Word: looted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Moscow: in four weeks of March, Zhukov's army alone killed 183,000 men, captured 25,000, seized or destroyed 2,100 tanks, 4,600 guns, 54,000 trucks. Last week, at two railway junctions, Red units captured 1,600 railroad cars loaded with food, ammunition, loot, wounded Germans...
...hitherto had not disturbed Monte Carlo. New-rich Germans arrived to spend the proceeds of the loot of France. Collaborationists and refugees with more money than respectability swarmed in. Prices soared. The average price of a meal in 1942, was $24. Wine and liquors easily added another $100 to the bill. British whiskey and gin were $40 a bottle. Good brands of British cigarets were $22 for 50. Food was plentiful and good for those who had the price. The Germans ordered an end of that, too, demanded rationing for neutral Monagasoues. The Government of Prince Louis II acceded...
...Restoration of, or compensation for, loot, machinery and equipment destroyed or removed, including compensation for commercial and industrial interests seized...
...Declaration on Austria was as unexpected as an earthquake. At least some of its meaning was as easy to grasp, its causes as hard to define. The Great Powers certainly meant: since Germany was not to keep Austria, her first grab, she need not expect to keep any other loot...
High Stakes. Despite its huge loot, Germany has been unable to assemble adequate basic reserves. The nation has been like a gambler in an increasingly steep game, winning big sums yet compelled to throw it all back in, to meet the relentless doubling by the other players...