Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small policy operators capitulated to the syndicate. Negro Operator Jones was kidnaped in 1946, paid $100,000 in ransom and hurriedly left for Mexico. But Ted Roe, his heir apparent, refused to give in. The Jones-Roe wheels netted $1,120,000 that year...
...each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...
Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. told a Senate committee that "the entire Army" was "deeply shocked" by the capture of Camp Commander Francis T. Dodd by his prisoners. Both Dodd and Brigadier General Charles F. Colson, who agreed to the compromising ransom terms, were busted to their permanent rank of colonel. To Colson's immediate superior, Brigadier General Paul F. Yount, went a formal "administrative reprimand...
...reporting, San Francisco Chronicle's George de Carvalho, who was born in Hong Kong and knows San Francisco's Chinatown intimately. He was the first to expose the Chinese Communist extortion racket (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). After Carvalho reported that Chinese-Americans were being bilked for ransom to get their relatives out of jail in Red China, federal investigators went after the racket...
...Atomic City (Paramount) is a neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies. The fun begins when foreign agents kidnap a nuclear physicist's son and hold him for a ransom in atomic formulas. The cops & robbers story is an old formula itself, but the tightly knit screenplay bristles with tingling action and intriguing mechanical devices used by the FBI operatives to track down the criminals: car-to-car telephones, kinescope, television cameras with zoom lenses...