Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honor Among Thieves. The case was ultimately broken by hard, routine investigation by the FBI and Boston police, and by a certain lack of honor among thieves. In two divisions of the loot, O'Keefe said, he was gypped out of $62,000. When he threatened reprisals, he was shot at twice in the streets of Dorchester. Then Bookie John H. Carlson, a close friend and confidant of O'Keefe's, suddenly vanished-apparently the victim of a "ride." Sixteen months ago Specs O'Keefe went back to jail in Springfield for gun-carrying and violation...
...have used fraudulent mineral assays to obtain the timbering and mineral rights on mining claims in Oregon. The suspected fraud should surprise few people, for it is no great revelation that private interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates to the nineteenth century, when lumber was worth little, yet was essential for construction of mine shafts. Today the timber above ground is often...
Other giveaway programs keep hoping that they will get to the top, too, if they just scatter enough loot along the way. NBC's The Big Surprise is still offering the biggest jackpot of all ($100,000) and still failing to get a jackpot-sized audience. CBS's Name That Tune has upped its ante to $25,000 without sensationally upping its rating, and ABC's Bert Parks loudly claims some sort of primacy for having dispersed "more than $5,000,000" over the years on Stop the Music and Break the Bank ("the granddaddy...
Caseworker. In Detroit, police looked for the holdup man who took $8 and a wristwatch from Cab Driver Edward Grzynowicz, wavered, returned the loot plus 50? from his own pocket, explained: "It's for cigarettes and coffee; you look nervous and probably need...
...School, they confiscated an old Chinese figured-silk dressing gown. Muttered one detective: "You never know what these symbols mean. Better have them translated." At St. Peter's Priory, they interrupted Anglican Missionary Trevor Huddleston in the middle of a Scripture lesson and expropriated 44 documents. The prize loot: Father Huddleston's correspondence with South African Author Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton...