Word: lootings
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...Bisbee, Ariz., Officer A. S. Orton caught a small boy making off with assorted loot from a store. "Just what," asked he, "did you intend to do with this brassiere?" Said the boy: "Make a blindfold for my burro...
...Horia Sima was still unaccounted for, new whipping boys for the rebellion were turned up every day. One was Mihai Itsa-Marin, one-armed mayor of the Bucharest suburb of Serban-Voda. accused, with his wife, of 87 murders during the revolt, of concealing 70 truckloads of Iron Guard loot in his home - cotton, wool, silk, furniture, canned goods, jewelry, silverware...
...should the Axis powers attack this Hemisphere? "This is the same dangerous . . . wishful thinking which has destroyed ... so many conquered peoples. . . . The vast resources and wealth of this Hemisphere constitute the most tempting loot in all the world...
...exploits are legendary. It is said that he once entered the headquarters of a robber chief, sat down and simply glared at the chief until he bowed, apologized and handed the loot to Toyama, who returned it to the owners. He made a fortune by borrowing huge sums and then paid his debts by selling coal mines he had acquired by political wangling-all to prove how easy it was to acquire riches. He then retired to poverty and his small wooden house...
...shrouded factories in far Bohemia, the new centre of German arms production, there are being forged weapons of another spring's Blitzkrieg .... The entire economic effort of at least 120,000,000 in the heart of Europe is directed into the channels of the Nazi war industry. German loot has been on a gigantic scale. . . . The Nazis are exerting 30% more energy than Britain on their war output. ... In the war's second winter we still have three-quarters of a million workers we cannot find use for. . . . Let every man in Britain ask himself whenever he feels...