Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could make an eroded wasteland blossom. Instead, refrigerators, watches, lingerie, television sets and bubble gum began moving across the border. Wooden handles stamped "made south of parallel 42" were slapped into imported shovels, wooden bases with the same markings were attached to Japanese sewing machines, and all the loot found its way north to market. Most lucrative item of all was the automobile, legally subject to duties of six times or more its U.S. market value. Second-hand cars shipped to Patagonia from the U.S. were driven north across the border, repainted, equipped with forged papers and sold for profits...
...members have the illusion that Hitler's war aims include Irish "freedom." The young village buckoes give up their Gaelic football in favor of what the parish curate calls the national pastime-giving the British "a touch" or two. They spy on airfields, raid military barracks to loot arms, and in general try to behave like true descendants of "the Bold Fenian...
...Newshound Van Slycke had his hot tape on the air. KITE then wrapped up the story with another "on-the-spot report" when one of the station's own secretaries just happened along the street a few minutes later as cops collared the fleeing robber and his $455 loot...
Isabela because of overcrowding in mainland prisons. The day before they boarded Valinda, the prisoners mutinied. They raided the arsenal, disarmed the few remaining guards, then pillaged Villamil (pop. about 200), the island's administrative settlement. Loading their loot into a pair of stolen boats, 21 of them set course for the mainland, hoping for a chance to seize a more seaworthy craft en route; Valinda became their prize...
...Punta Galera, 100 miles from the Colombia border, the young convict embraced the Herveys, kissed their hands in gratitude, then rode ashore with his friends and their loot in Valinda's launch. When they were gone, the yacht headed north to Panama. By week's end, Isabela's commandant reported that order had been restored. And, on the Ecuadorian mainland, ten of the Valinda's fugitive passengers were rounded...