Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians and Frenchmen, was absolutely lost in Germany twice, ate four candy bars in one afternoon after not eating candy for 15 years at least, got myself three pairs of German binoculars and found a champagne factory, which a general commandeered next day after tasting some of my loot, was waved at by bevies of German civilians as if they were happy at being liberated, saw at least 5,000 German prisoners and flew back from Corps Headquarters in weather so rough the Piper Cub pilot's sweat visibly rolled down his neck, while I counted the wings...
Blood Suckers. In Washington, D.C., postal inspectors discovered that some mailbox thieves now steal checks, hurry to a blood bank, give a pint, get a receipt made out to the name of the check, cash their loot by presenting a patriotic identification...
...Douglas Hume) directed the exhumation-from New York City's Tombs Prison. He had purloined $386,920 from the New York realty management firm for which he worked, then absconded. He was captured last spring at Victoria, extradited, convicted. At first he would not tell where his unspent loot was cached. But last week, facing a 20-year sentence, fortyish Ralph Wilby talked...
...skin-of-the-teeth days, when a Japanese invasion of Hawaii was more than a possibility, U.S. authorities declared that ordinary U.S. greenbacks were no longer legal currency. Greenbacks overprinted with the word "Hawaii" were substituted. Reason: if Hawaii were captured the monetary loot would consist of nothing more than "invasion money" which could not be used in international exchange...
High-graders are miners who sneak rich bits of ore out of mines in their hair, ears, mouths, between their toes, between slices of bread in their dinner pails, or who raid staked claims which are not yet producing. They peddle their loot to "receivers" for about $10 an ounce. The receivers melt the stolen ore into "buttons" worth $4,000 to $5,000 each. Then "carriers" tote the buttons, usually hidden in multiple-pocket corsets, into the U.S. Most of the gold reaches New York City, where refiners pay $30 an ounce for it, sell it in turn...