Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest & best collection of borrowed art since the loot Napoleon had brought home to the Louvre from his conquering sweep of Europe. And it was even better guarded. In Washington's National Gallery, blue-coated guards in reinforced numbers paced the corridors. Military policemen stood in every room. But the 202 paintings they were guarding (estimated value: $80,000,000) were not loot, though they too had been brought back by conquerors (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). All but two-a Daumier and a Manet-had once hung on the walls of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...
Professor Loot has already used seismographs to prospect for gold...
...Graduate Secretary Charles W. Duhig '29, notified Cambridge and Yard police of the burglary early Tuesday morning. At the end of three days' combing of all available leads, investigators have so far been unable to uncover the loot, valued at $80 by Duhig...
Local police investigators yesterday predicted quick and complete solution of the $50,000 Coop robbery with possible discovery of the entire loot, after State, Boston, and Cambridge forces staged a well-laid trap at a Carver Street, South End, hotel which resulted in the capture of a second suspect...
...faintly embarrassed answer was that the best of them were gone. The Russians had shipped 1,695 masterpieces home, left only 1,231 minor paintings to cover the walls. Among the loot: Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, 17 Rubenses and as many Rembrandts, 24 Van Dycks and seven Poussins, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Velasquez, Vermeer, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. Total value of the Zwinger loot...