Word: ransomes
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...suspect the attack until it was too late. But the Indian warriors, under the nominal command of French officers, did not massacre everybody. They captured all the men, women and children they could, made off with them on the cold journey to Canada, to hold them for ransom. A woman two days out of childbed survived while others fell or were tomahawked by the way. Parson Chapman nearly went out of his head when the Indians let his wife drown under the river...
...Ransom Eli Olds is the only man in the U. S. with two automobiles named after him (Reo, Oldsmobile). The white-crested old founder-chairman has watched his company pile up $9,000,000 of deficits in four years. The Michigan bank crash tied up 70% of the company's funds. Working capital declined from $20,000,000 to about $7,000,000. Early this year Founder Olds, now 70, emerged from retirement to win a proxy battle for control, has since been active in a thoroughgoing internal reorganization. An important point in any merger talk is Reo's truck...
...Lapeyre's report last week, a lover of child sacrifice. Urns were unearthed containing the charred bones of children as old as 12, as young as a few months. Animal bones found in other receptacles led expedition members to guess that lambs, pigs, kids had been offered as ransom for intended child victims...
...Three days after their capture, when the junk was anchored in a muddy tidal creek, they made their first attempt at escape. After floundering all night in oozy mud they were glad to get back to their prison. Soon one of them was sent off with a note demanding ransom. The other three settled down to wait for rescue. When searching planes came over, the pirates hid themselves and their prisoners in the reeds or shifted their anchorage. One night there was a terrific shindy; next morning the prisoners learned their captors had been hijacked by bandits. The change made...
...confusion the captives made their second break for freedom. But they were all caught before they had gone far. As the chase grew hotter the bandits took to land, dragged their prisoners with them on nightly forced marches. Finally, five and a half months after their capture, the ransom was paid and the three Britons were released...