Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Welder Pierre tried again to double his loot, and cracked. The question: "To prepare a substitute for chinawood oil, castor oil is submitted to a careful pyrolysis. What are the two volatile compounds that are formed as byproducts?"* Pierre stood in anguished silence as the seconds and his millions slipped away. But after the disaster came a pleasant surprise: a consolation check for 1,000,000 francs from the sponsoring soapmaker...
Touch & Glow? In Washington, D.C., FBI agents gingerly arrested Brown Coleman and James Thompson while the two were loading into Coleman's car 20 lead bars stolen from the Naval Research Laboratory (where they were used as shields for experimental reactors), made a quick check, happily discovered the loot was not radioactive...
...FLYING BOX, by Mary McMinnies. An astonishingly good first novel about fumbling Britons who still pretend that they are carrying the white man's burden in Malaya. The decline and fall of Empire is measured by the spurious successes of a black-marketeering London spiv who finds loot among the ruins...
...Each His Own. In Denver, Bank Robber Clayton C. Kemp was nabbed as he boarded a bus, readily gave up the $11,200 loot, but when a cop grabbed the dollar bill he was clutching for bus fare, he yelled hotly: "Hey. that's my own money...
...folk singers eating a little more regularly than in the past? We remembered that Lead Belly had sometimes been a little short on "loot...