Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart attack; in Puebla, Mexico. Traveling south in 1901 to start as a 500-a-day mechanic, Jenkins became a U.S. consular agent in Puebla, was kidnaped by bandits in 1920, and that proved to be his break; somehow he got his hands on part of the $25,000 ransom (at least the Mexican government, which paid the money, accused him of it), suddenly blossomed into a Prohibition bootlegger, then into textiles, cement, finance, soap, and a monopoly of movie houses...
...notorious 1935 kidnaping, Weyerhaeuser then 9, was snatched between school and home, held eight days while his kidnapers collected a $200,000 ransom. Released unharmed, he showed up at a farmhouse outside Tacoma; his abductors were traced soon afterward through marked bills spent in Salt Lake City. William Mahan and Harmon Waley, who kidnaped the boy, are still in federal prison; Waley's wife, an accomplice, has been freed...
...upward trend." Things are better than that. After months of being prodded, decried and even despaired of, the U.S. economy seems once more to be on the go. "The economy has finally formed a base from which it can move upwards with confidence," says Wells Fargo Bank President Ransom Cook, whose own bank less than a month ago expressed no such confidence...
Regarding the ransom paid to Castro for the Bay of Pigs fiasco, should not the label have been "In the Red" rather than "In the Black" [March...
Some weeks ago, your magazine reported that the drug firms were donating drugs. Now you report that profits from the donations are being turned over to charity. Is it not true that the ransom is being paid by taxpayers? Why deceive the public by giving the impression that drug firms are generous, kind-hearted corporations? The simple fact is that we are paying the ransom, although most of us do not know it and some of us do not like...