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...skin-of-the-teeth days, when a Japanese invasion of Hawaii was more than a possibility, U.S. authorities declared that ordinary U.S. greenbacks were no longer legal currency. Greenbacks overprinted with the word "Hawaii" were substituted. Reason: if Hawaii were captured the monetary loot would consist of nothing more than "invasion money" which could not be used in international exchange...
High-graders are miners who sneak rich bits of ore out of mines in their hair, ears, mouths, between their toes, between slices of bread in their dinner pails, or who raid staked claims which are not yet producing. They peddle their loot to "receivers" for about $10 an ounce. The receivers melt the stolen ore into "buttons" worth $4,000 to $5,000 each. Then "carriers" tote the buttons, usually hidden in multiple-pocket corsets, into the U.S. Most of the gold reaches New York City, where refiners pay $30 an ounce for it, sell it in turn...
...Domestic and foreign banking in Germany will be supervised. Loot taken from occupied countries will be recovered and returned. Germans will be forced to compensate expropriated Jews, other oppressed people in Germany "and the occupied countries...
Embalming Fluid. In Boston, thieves robbed a tavern of 25 cases of liquor, removed their loot in a stolen hearse...
Sunburned Captain Eric Strologo of His Majesty's Royal Artillery parked his truck in front of British headquarters and went inside. When he returned he found a young Maltese searching the truck for loot. He marched the boy off to the Military Police. They told him it was clearly a case for Maltese civil police. At police headquarters the boy was released, Strologo clapped in jail for unauthorized arrest of a Maltese citizen. That was July 14, 1943. Captain Strologo is still in jail...