Word: pilfering
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...realize that to pilfer more than $171 million from Clark Field in nine months would come to about $630,000 per day? I figure it would require at least 100 large trucks per day just to haul it away-hardly pilferage; more like grand theft...
...does. There are 4,000 servicemen in residence and 18 white women. What's more, the 4,000 servicemen have nothing to do but chase one little old Japanese soldier who still holds out in the hills and at night sneaks past the U.S. sentries to pilfer the colonel's private stock of gefilte fish. After a year of this, the servicemen are so desperate for something to do that they start teaching a hen to type...
...Harvest Waggon (valued at $450,000) and Van Dyck's Daedalus and Icarus from their frames and then abandoned them. Though both are relatively low-rated by today's art buyers, the thieves probably were not exercising esthetic discrimination. For one thing, they had time to pilfer $40 from a cashbox, proving their main interest to be monetary. For another, they left a Tintoretto, another Renoir and a Degas untouched...
...many of South Korea's poor, stealing from the U.S. Army is a trade and a livelihood. They steal from PXs and officers' homes, raid railroad yards, pilfer from trucks on the move, and diligently bleed oil pipelines (last year's losses were 1,500,000 gallons, enough to carry one tank company 22,400 miles). But after U.S. soldiers on guard duty, potshotting at intruders, killed several innocent bystanders, General George H. Decker ordered: "No more shooting." The thieving went on, the 40,000 men of South Korea's police force seemed unable or unwilling...
...Russians do not appear to be developing Albania as a base for war. According to the best available information, they are not building a submarine base in Albania, as has been rumored. Russians are there first of all to pilfer the country, taking out oil, chrome and other minerals...