Word: peugeots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said a heavily accented voice: "Hurry over to No. 80 Avenue Camille Pelletan and you will find a blue-green 404 Peugeot with interesting stolen property in it." The flics located the car, and in an excess of cunning watched it for 24 hours in the hope that its owner would show up. Naturally, no one appeared, so the police decided to search the car. There on the back seat, wrapped in newspapers, were eight rolled-up canvases by Cézanne that had been taken from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence last August. Valued...
...hard lessons. The most costly: never collide head-on with the U.S. compacts in price and size. Violating this rule all but finished the British Sunbeam Rapier and Austin, cut Hillman's U.S. sales by 76%. With the solitary exception of France's $2,250 middle-sized Peugeot-which is holding its own because of its reputation for high-quality workmanship-the successful imports are those that sell below the $1,800 bottom price of Detroit's compacts or those specifically designed for the luxury and sports-car markets...
Delinquent Girls. Pierre and Raymond leafed through the social register, Bottin Mondain, to find a victim, settled on four-year-old Eric Peugeot, heir to one of France's greatest fortunes (autos, appliances, heavy machinery). After studying the habits of the Peugeot family, Raymond kidnaped little Eric on April 12 last year from a sandbox at the exclusive St.-Cloud country club, left behind a typewritten note to the boy's father, demanding $100,000 ransom. Bundling the boy into a stolen Peugeot 403 sedan, Raymond and Pierre drove to the farmhouse at Grisy-les-Plâtres...
...Missions. The kidnapers disposed of all clues by burning the kidnap car and dropping their typewriter into the Seine. Pierre and Raymond decided that life was, at last, loverly. Pierre got a Studebaker and a small Fiat; Raymond bought a Peugeot, a Chevrolet Impala and a Thunderbird. Their girl friends, Ingelise and Rolande, blossomed out in new clothes...
Detectives made 10,000 checkups, ranging from France and Spain to Turkey and the U.S. Some 1,500 persons were questioned, 1,500 Peugeot sedans were searched, 2,000 tips investigated. The international police organization, Interpol, sent out 100,000 lists of the bank-note numbers on the payoff money...