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...bandits were ashamed. They stood by as Tso Tsen-hwa inspected their loot, calculated its value at $5,000,000 (Chinese, inflated). "The business tax," he said, "is 3.35%; $120,000 will be sufficient. Since Government regulations provide that itinerant traders may pay their taxes directly to the collector, I will class you as itinerants and conclude the transaction on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bashful Bandits | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...bandits counted out $120,000 from their loot. Solemnly the tax collector gave them in return the official $4 tax stamps. Then the bandits made off for the hills. Tso Tsen-hwa and his fellow passengers climbed back into the bus, continued on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bashful Bandits | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...Unterstein is an art center. In a whitewashed building, once a rest center for German railway workers, the American joist Airborne Division has put on display Hermann Goring's fabulous $200,000,000 collection of art works, the crème de la crème of the loot of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Goring's Beauties | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...Although Göring specialized in old masters, he had a taste for moderns. His loot included two Van Goghs (a Sunflowers and Bridge at Aries), and at least two Renoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Goring's Beauties | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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