Word: steals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amass riches are rare. As every detective-story reader knows, most such slippery geniuses blossom in foreign capitals. But last week, with pardonable pride, the Federal Bureau of Investigation added to the list of master forgers the name of Chicago-born Alexander D. L. Thiel (rhymes with steal...
Night after night he used a secret trick to enter the locked doors of Wall Street offices. When he found a company with a big bank account, he would steal a few blank checks, often marking the stubs "destroyed because of bad printing." The second part of his work called for more skill. He would study the life and habits of a Manhattan businessman, learn to impersonate him, then open a bank account in his name...
Blood Suckers. In Washington, D.C., postal inspectors discovered that some mailbox thieves now steal checks, hurry to a blood bank, give a pint, get a receipt made out to the name of the check, cash their loot by presenting a patriotic identification...
...MacPhail and associates bought all the baseball property listed in your story for approximately $3 million, they have made the biggest "steal" in the history of baseball...
...most interesting thing about RKO's quite unoriginal "Experiment Perilous." Seeing things extremely realistically throughout, the camera in many spots has captured the flat, faded look of old daguerreotypes to give this period melodrama authentic flavor. The plot, based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, and actually a direct steal from "Angel Street" ("Gaslight"), is, by its asked repetition, the picture's most salient fault...