Word: heroine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mainline Cut. In Los Angeles, Ralph Armijo confessed to police that he was working his way through barber college by peddling heroin...
...Kowloon's alleys-some of the widest are only 6 ft. across-prostitutes peer from hundreds of dark doorways, and hordes of emaciated Chinese line up outside tiny, shuttered shops to buy pinches of heroin (at 5? a pinch), then squat on a corner to inhale it through rolled paper tubes or matchbox funnels. The dingy restaurants serve dog and cat meat supplied by members of Triad, Kowloon's secret society, which also operates the booming gambling, narcotics and prostitution rackets...
...Communists took over in China, but the status of Kowloon's six acres was not changed. The British were content to claim authority over Kowloon City while staying out of it, letting the jungle govern itself. But last month, when a police constable was attacked and a heroin-parlor attendant stabbed to death, exasperated Hong Kong cops finally moved in on the town. In one night they arrested 150 people, and nine-man patrols began nightly dawn-to-dusk raids, concentrating on the narcotics trade...
...light planes that take off from jungle airfields built by the French during their five-year war with Communist Viet Minh, the raw opium is transported to Bangkok and Hong Kong, bought by Chinese dealers at up to $1,000 a kilo and refined into morphine and heroin, as well as smokable opium. Smugglers then take possession, hoping for the vast profits to be gained from selling the narcotics in the big cities of Asia, Europe...
Blues Singer Billie Holiday, 44, laid up in Manhattan with a host of internal ailments aggravated by longtime alcoholism and dope addiction, was arrested in her hospital bed. The rap: illegal possession of heroin, which Billie had somehow obtained, probably from a smuggling visitor...