Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alcohol poisoning, several hundred more had been blinded, and Kuwait's hospitals were filled to overflowing. Bathtub gin is flourishing, and bootlegging the real thing has become Kuwait's fastest growing business. A fifth of Dewar's White Label Scotch now commands a sheik's ransom of $50 on the black market...
...Liberal Businessman." Connor has long been one of the blue-ribbon U.S. businessmen that Washington officials tap for aid and advice. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, he helped collect millions of dollars worth of drugs that went to Fidel Castro as part of the ransom for Cuban prisoners. He is vice chairman of the Business Council and a member of the Committee for Economic Development...
...fathers and nuns had nothing to ransom their lives with." Of some 1,300 whites in Stanleyville, all but 60 were rescued. Of the dead, at least 29 were Belgian, one Canadian, two American-Carlson and another missionary, Phyllis Rine, 25, of Mount Vernon, Ohio...
Billy dutifully agrees. What they are doing is planning a kidnaping, though his wife prefers to call it "borrowing a child." The idea originated with Arthur, the medium's dead infant son and favorite contact on the Other Side. Once the victim and the ransom money are theirs, the medium can go to the child's parents to divine where both can be found. She will thus be assured of the fame her phenomenal powers deserve, and no harm done...
Before announcing the amnesty, however, Ulbricht had released prisoners-strictly on a business basis. Taking a leaf out of Castro's ransom book, he quietly "sold" Bonn 800 prisoners, most of them West German citizens, in exchange for several million marks worth of butter, coffee, cocoa and sugar. The transaction was accepted last summer on behalf of West Germany by Vice Chancellor Erich Mende. When word of it leaked out last week, it was branded by the West German press as a grim "traffic...