Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gulf Stream divers than they were for Yukon diggers. Of an estimated $8 billion in gold extracted from the New World by the Spanish, according to one expert, at least 5% -$400 million worth-was lost in shipwrecks on the way home. The actual value of all the lost loot is infinitely higher, since some 17th century coins and jewelry fetch huge prices; a single Spanish escudo can bring as much as $1,200 on the rare-coin market...
...waters are wide open. With a license from Florida's Internal Improvement Board, a salvage contractor gets exclusive rights to work a specific area for $100 a year, in exchange must turn over one-fourth of any loot to the state. As treasure fever mounts, Florida officials have become increasingly worried that the state is not getting its proper share. Last week the Internal Improvement Board chairman, who is happily named William Kidd (no kin to the pirate captain), admitted that the state does not post any inspectors aboard salvage ships...
Escape Committee. The incentive was that only $942,000 of the loot has been recovered, and Wilson surely knew how to lay his hands on much of the balance. Presumably promised a piece of the cash, an underworld "escape committee" reportedly had been planning the break for months...
...wasn't there: Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney. A gambler, always in debt, he had enough ships in the West Indies in 1781 to retain command of the /western Atlantic. But first he went off on an orgy of legalized piracy to seize and loot the rich little Dutch colony of St. Eustatius. Then, complaining that he was suffering from "the gout and the gravel," he sailed back to England in the luxury of one of his biggest ships...
...wife, Bienvenida Ricardo, both believed to be in Montreal; two children, Rafael and Yolanda, born to longtime mistress, Lina Lovatón, all three of whom live in Miami. The story goes that they are on the outs with Rhadamés and the rest for hogging all the loot...