Word: looted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ralph Ellmore of Essex got six months for stealing a washing wringer from a bombed house; two soldiers, William Hart, 19, and James MacDonald, 20, got a total haul of a cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military and civil defense services were...
...fire of 1871 let loose Chicago's underworld for a brazen orgy of pillage, "the richest harvest of loot that had ever fallen to the lot of American criminals." Three hundred and fifty prisoners were freed from the flaming jail, promptly broke into a jewelry store. Through the glare scurried whores, murderers, thieves, all "scolding, stealing, fighting; laughing at the beautiful and splendid crash of walls and falling roofs...
...ready cash may have unusual opportunities during the next few years to acquire important paintings." Reason: only foreign exchange (preeminently dollars) can now get pictures out of Europe. The Germans, having sold a great deal from the public and private collections of greater Germany, are believed ready to dump looted pictures from occupied nations. Billy Rose has heard that agents are on the way with booty from the Louvre. But, added he, "I won't buy loot. I wouldn't pay $50 for the Mona Lisa under those conditions...
...tightened rather than weakened by Nazi gains in Scandinavia and the Low Countries, taxed the stamina of Central Europe. As additional Channel ports fell into Nazi hands the prospect of a severe counter-blockade by Nazi U-boats and planes threatened Great Britain. >Germany expected to loot enough to eat till autumn, hoped by then to have conquered enough more to master next winter's problem. Otherwise the Nazis looked to be in for it. Seventeen per cent short of food self-sufficiency, the Reich has brigaded its appetite, lived off stored-up peacetime surpluses. It lacks men enough...
...whereas Adolf Hitler can take Denmark's larder without putting anything in, he must sacrifice plenty to get his Norwegian loot. In order to keep the labor of digging, cutting and fishing under way, he must send into Norway just the things Germany can spare least-food, clothing, oil, coal and coke. Obviously he considered this temporary liability worth hazarding for the strategic asset involved: control of Swedish...