Word: theft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...international investigator into the secret underworld of Trinidad. Tagging along through mangrove swamp and sudden death, he learns the jest of murder and the intrigue of politics. DRURY LANE'S LAST CASE-Barnaby Ross-Viking ($2). All the Shakespearian lore of Drury Lane is necessary to explain the theft and return of a rare volume from a museum. Mixed identity and murder place in the action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive is explained after the solution is reached, and the supreme greatness of Lane is shown as a final curtain. THE PUZZLE...
...time of the theft police advanced the theory that the sneak thief had used a stick tipped with chewing gum to lift the bonds from behind the teller's window. William J. Burns Detective Agency believe that he might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed...
...worst auto-thieving city in the U. S., Chicago enjoys the highest U. S. theft insurance rates. In San Francisco it costs 75? per $100 to insure a Chrysler, in Washington 95?, in Boston $1.70, in Manhattan $3.05, in Chicago $9.18-$91.80 a year for $1,000 of insurance...
Chicago insurance rates are based on three factors: 1) the number of cars of a given make registered; 2) the number (of the same make) stolen and 3) the average loss on each stolen car.* The average loss on a stolen Chrysler is $225, the number of thefts 21.4% of registrations old and new. The theft-ratio for Walter P. Chrysler's two lowest price cars is even higher-44.5% for De Sotos, 80.6% for Plymouths. But the average loss is less-$80 on a Plymouth. So the Plymouth rate is only...
...Chicago's theft insurance rate on Fords exactly equals the rate on Chryslers although percentage-wise only two-thirds as many Fords are stolen. Reason: the lower percentage of Ford thefts is balanced by five times as many Ford registrations, more Ford thefts by actual count...