Word: stores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Investigators found that GSA's self-service stores, where federal workers obtain office supplies, were robbed of goods worth millions of dollars. One employee walked away with $262,000 worth of Polaroid film over a two-week period. Some store managers placed bogus orders with suppliers, paid them for the undelivered goods and pocketed kickbacks of 40% or more...
...Mendell, the gang last December broke into a vacant building near a police station in a seedy section of Chicago's Near North Side. With acetylene torches, they burned their way into a jewelry store next door, used an electronic device to circumvent a burglar alarm and stole more than $1 million worth of jewelry, silver and furs...
After the police discovered the burglary, the store's owner, Harry Levinson, did little to help their investigation. Griped a detective on the case: "He was the most uncooperative victim I've ever seen." But Levinson happened to be acquainted with a prominent figure in a different sort of enforcement business, Big Tuna. Levinson complained, according to a police informant, about his misfortune. For reasons of his own, Big Tuna sympathized. An order soon went out from River Forest: return the swag. The gang reluctantly obeyed, handing over the loot to Accardo who, police and FBI officials believe, kept...
...good chunk of downtown Salt Lake City, 326,500 acres elsewhere, insurance companies with $383 million in assets, the Salt Lake newspaper, eleven radio stations and two TV stations, $36 million in Times-Mirror Co. shares (3% of the total company stock), and controlling interest in a department-store chain and a beet-sugar firm...
...glasses bearing her pixie face were packed in countless Wheaties boxes. The glasses now fetch $9 each at MacSonny's flea market in North Reading, Mass. Anything old sells: wedding dresses, shoes, and, for collectors, Coca-Cola signs, beer cans and comic books. Says Bill McCrenice, an antique-store owner and a frequent seller at Atlanta's "1-85" drive-in market: "I bring things that aren't good enough for the store...