Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something for the Wife. Now some of the workers started to investigate the wagon at their leisure. Finding it stuffed with attractive trinkets, they began to fill their pockets. Some hid the loot in the rubble. Others, who had watched their comrades cache the goodies, stole into the rubble, removed what hidden jewels they could find, and carried them home. One man put $200,000 worth into a satchel and took it to his wife. Another gathered $15,000 worth, sped to his farm in Gettysburg, Pa., just a mile or so from Dwight Eisenhower's place, and buried...
...pumped water out of the basement of the abandoned building, screening the water for baubles, while downstream, eager laborers panned for gold. They picked and they plucked and they poked. After persistent questioning, some of the demolition workers began talking, and five men were arrested. Nearly all of the loot was recovered...
...gags go downhill the rest of the way. The mercenary motorists keep their secret from the police, and thus begins an all-day drag race through Southern California to see who gets to the loot first. Accompanying them, or sucked up in transit, are Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Dick Shawn, Edie Adams, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas -and finally Spencer Tracy, of all people, as a fairly corruptible sheriff
...reassuring to note the other day the solidarity and unity of American labor. When over 25 New York workmen can witness a daylight robbery and fail to summon a policeman, even before they realize they can cut themselves in on the loot, it is indeed a heartening sign...
Historians, for their part, like to interpret fashion as a reflection of world events. Thus women's clothes in the Middle Ages blossomed with a new luxuriance of embroidered accessories under the influence of the loot brought back from the Crusades. The French Revolution temporarily reduced women from elaborate confections to simpler citizens. And the emancipation of women after World War I changed them almost overnight from being "all bosoms and bottoms," as Mrs. Patrick Campbell once wisecracked, to flat-chested, flat-hipped, shingle-headed imitations of little boys...