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...package, took out a Reising submachine gun, and ambled into a branch of the First National Bank of Portland. He froze the bank's employees in their places by pumping four shots into the ceiling, forced a typist to stuff $9,716 into a paper bag, grabbed the loot and rushed from the bank toward a Ford truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Slight Case of Murder | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Royal Navy, which insisted that its only interest was in training divers and locating the exact site of the wreck, the Argylls were at it again in Tobermory Bay. The time had come, the eleventh Duke decided recently, to make "a really serious attempt" at the treasure. Even if loot eludes him, the Duke hopes to make expenses selling movie and feature story rights to the search. "The world is too drab," he says. "I think we could all do with a little romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Treasure in Tobermory | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...Shadow of Tragedy." "Barbarian neighbor!" barked the Indian press, charging Pakistan with a plot of annihilation against Hindus. Angry Pakistan headlines bayed: "Over 10,000 [Moslems] killed-harrowing tales of murder, arson and loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA & PAKISTAN: Let It Be War . . ' | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Rummaging petulantly through a pile of loot, the once-polite pair cast aside a handful of unsuitable rings and brooches. "Junk," they murmured, then left with 12 million francs' worth of jewelry. As a parting insult to their uncooperative hostess, they drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Polite Pair | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...from Bolivar, Mo. A onetime farmhand, he had only been through grammar school, but he knew how to do things in the city: he had once helped Frankey steal a $1,300 radio transmitter from an M-8 U.S. armored car. When they first tried to sell their loot, black-marketeers started them on an easier way to easy money: they introduced them to two Russian officers in civilian clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Frankey, Abel & the Torpedo | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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