Word: steals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final Godkin lecture, the Chicago professor cried that "the ideals of freedom steal into the dreams of conquerors, and they wing their way above the battlefields, deadening the victors' shout." He avowed that "I am not terrified by the shoutings of Hitler or the boasts of Mussolini. They speak for a mood, but not for the heart of their peoples...
Recently Boyer needed a 1,000-ton steel press (about the size of a ten-story building) for his plastics experiments. So Ford conspired with him to "steal" one of three giant presses then being delivered to the Production Department, had it sidetracked for Boyer's exclusive...
Careerists, Tiffany men seldom quit. But there are three sure ways to get fired. One is to sell (or give away) a Tiffany box to a non-purchaser. Another is to fight with an old customer. The third is to steal. About once in ten years an employe is caught stealing. But Tiffany's never prosecutes. Instead the wrongdoer is quietly escorted out the rear door, warned never to try the jewelry business again...
...Villain Still Pursued Her" is second on the bill but is its first, and sole, attraction. It is solid, old-fashioned stuff with explanatory asides and soliloquies and even a moral. Anita Louise makes a lovely flower of innocence, but the big black villain (Alan Mowbray) steals the show (his attempts to steal Anita are foiled in time...
...Chicago, one in Cleveland, six in New York City. The monetary loss in these thefts was about $75,000 but the loss of badly needed tools was more important. In Washington, Advisory Defense Commissioner William Knudsen refused to worry: "I don't imagine you could steal enough to get us in any trouble, and, anyhow, we could make some more." But the new form of crime was a sign of the times...