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Vice President Henry A. Wallace's Economic Defense Board completed a sleuthing job last week, came up with a rich haul of loot. In the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad yards in Hoboken, N.J., the board's investigators found the following war supplies, stranded in warehouses and freight cars ever since the consignees had been cut off by Hitler's conquests...
...house; Augustus Saint Gaudens built the outer court, patterned after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. There she gave her most famous party, the Bal Blanc, arranged by Ward McAllister, attended by the 400, and costing Mr. Oelrichs $30,000. Into Rosecliff she packed what Henry James called the "loot" of Europe: Gobelin tapestries, cloisonné vases, Renaissance statuary, Jacobean furniture, Sèvres china, paintings, libraries, silver sets, visiting aristocrats. In 1939, 13 years after she died, the Oelrichs family closed the house. Last week house and furnishings were auctioned...
...herself and Austria. The Ukrainians undertook to supply 1,000,000 tons of grain, 46,000 tons of meat, 400,000,000 eggs, many horses, much coal, lard, manganese, fodder, sugar. The German Commander in the East, Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn, settled down to gather in the loot...
...shall strive to resist by land and sea. We shall be on his track wherever he goes. Our air power will continue to teach the German homeland that war is not all loot and triumph. We shall aid and stir the people of every conquered country to resistance and revolt...
...companies, who not only dictated sales prices but sometimes charged as much as 30% interest on loans. Sweeping out of the jungle in organized forays, Mate Cosido* and his well-armed men have staged at least seven big holdups, netting over 90,000 pesos ($21,420). He distributes the loot among the neediest farmers and pickers, thereby assuring himself concealment...