Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...
...Unterstein is an art center. In a whitewashed building, once a rest center for German railway workers, the American joist Airborne Division has put on display Hermann Goring's fabulous $200,000,000 collection of art works, the crème de la crème of the loot of Europe...
...Although Göring specialized in old masters, he had a taste for moderns. His loot included two Van Goghs (a Sunflowers and Bridge at Aries), and at least two Renoirs...
...week the U.S. Seventh Army's Lieut. James J. Rorimer (curator-on-leave of Medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum) found himself sitting on one of the most mountainous heaps of stolen masterpieces known to history. Part of the intended contents of the two projected Nazi museums, the loot was stored in Neuschwanstein Castle, an elaborate retreat built by mad King Ludwig in the wooded hills of southern Bavaria...
...Seventy-two cases of art stolen from France and from Russia-in the former Carthusian Monastery at Buxheim. ¶ Some 300 cases of miscellaneous loot-in another old stronghold of Ludwig II of Bavaria on the island of Herren...