RACKET IN ARGENTINA
ORGANISED STEALING
"The business of.stealing automobiles and marketing them, after -. judicious■'■'•reconditioning," with a-.jvnnimuni of, delay, has long been a flourishing one in': Buenos. Aires, Argentina; according. to a'recent cablegram from that city rpubTished in. America. Tho operators.1 .have displayed commendable' enterprise ill, modernising their methods as the. business', -grew, and today employ a large .number of expert mechanics,, salesmen, and '-'observers.". The mission'of the last-named has been to keep headquarters advised on the-'types of car- most; in- demand and to provido ,' ■• pointer, s' 'designed to speed; up business generally.- : " following a suggestion from -one of. .these-'advisers, a .drastic Change, was recently 'made in.-'marketing methods. Instead- of stealing the- car and finding the purchaser- afterwards, a car of a given type is now sold to the customer and delivered as fooh as it has been "acquired," usually a matter"of a few hours. According to the police, an operator who latelyfell into their hands boasted that the new system is proving less ex? pensive and: entails less, overhead expenditure than the old.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 23
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173RACKET IN ARGENTINA Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 23
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