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...year terms, Walter last year grossed more than $5,000,000 in interest payments, some $1,600,000 more than the firm paid out for its own interest and bank charges. Beyond this, there is the profit of the subsidiary company that insures the shell homes against fire and theft. Adding it all up, Jim Walter has made an estimated $9,000,000 in shell housing...
...Slack pointed out that three others from the project are getting along fine in the service. "We found that we have to let the boy make the decision himself," he said. Despite the fact that the boys work continually with expensive equipment at the laboraotory, only one theft has occured on the premises during the three years of the program. Slack feels even this can be attributed to the negligence of the experimenter. "Twenty-five dollars in one-dollar bills was stolen on Ash Wednesday by a subject who didn't have a full-time job and was facing...
...hunters bickering over a rich find. One shoots up the others and goes off with the prize; two survivors spend the rest of the film chasing him. Following his plot 1,000 miles up the Amazon, he stayed open to suggestions from real life. Seeing a woman suspected of theft fleeing through a market crowd, he whipped out his camera, shot the scene, and used it to introduce one of the film's heroines. During ten days on the Belem-Bracanga railroad, the company lost some of their clothes to sparks from the wood-burning engine; the train...
...Luck. In Nottingham, England, after stealing a porcelain Japanese luck charm from the house they were painting, Artisans Harry James and Douglas Harding took it to a nearby antique shop for appraisal, were arrested when the dealer turned out to be the home owner and theft victim...
...other whipped out of the car's luggage compartment an assortment of crucifixes, icons, tracts and lamps and did a brisk business at a fat profit until the counterfeit beggar tipped him off that the cops were coming. One day the agents of the Department for Fighting Theft and Speculation seized...