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...whole house-party gangs up on her. Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...
...have never had an accident, loading 350 bars on each truck and making one trip per day, he can complete the job in about five months, starting this week. Two Coast Guardsmen will ride on each truck but hold-ups are not anticipated: bar silver makes bulky loot, hard to dispose...
Shipping was tied up. all transportation services stopped, refuse and litter piled up on Kingston's streets. Armed only with stones, angry mobs forced Chinese grocers to close their shops, shut down the city's electric light plants, intercepted food vans and distributed the loot to their own hungry, underfed supporters...
...West, called Cayo Huesco-Bone Reef-by buccaneers, was once a clearing house for pirate loot. Before its shores were marked with lighthouses Key West inhabitants did a good trade in wrecked vessels. Then came Cubans, fleeing their revolution in 1869. who set up Key West's cigarmaking industry. Spongers and shrimp fishers followed. For a time the U. S. planned to make it an American Gibraltar. In 1896. Key West's prosperity was at its peak, its population at an all-time high of 25,000 and it was the biggest, richest city in Florida. But despite...
...large part of the $5,000 worth of valuables stolen from the Peabody Tercentenary Exhibit by Olesen has been returned, it was reported yesterday. The loot, which included 30 articles of gold, mostly, beads and amulets, was easily identified by the shops in which Olesen had sold it. Many of the stolen objects returned, however, had been either badly mutilated or melted down...