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Reporter Raymond found food in plenty in Italy-for those who could pay bootleg prices. A continuing stream of money-laden German "observers" bought everything in sight. In September alone 7,554 charges of bootlegging, hoarding and similar offenses resulted in 6,592 convictions. The Government's reaction was to broaden the food-rationing system to include all types of meats, including entrails...
...goods across the seas. Now, Mr. Landon declared, the act was being interpreted just that way. To evade the Neutrality Act, the U.S. is practicing subterfuges (such as putting U.S. ships under Panamanian registry) that are "beneath the dignity of a mighty people." The U.S. is engaging in "a bootleg form...
Remembering a costly lesson learned by the U.S. in the years 1919-33, New York's straight-grained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week wrote his Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "Owing to the increased taxes on liquor there might be created a temptation to bootleg. Therefore I wish you would make every effort to nip any such tendency immediately...
...gasoline strapped to their luggage racks. Few drove more slowly, as the Government had asked them to do, to save gas. Many guessed wrong on the day's consumption, abandoned their cars beside the road. Those who tried to bribe service stations to slip them a little bootleg were turned down: the rumor was out that the Government had spotters on the roads...
...down dope smuggling so sharply, according to a report from Washington, that prices have soared in the bootleg drug trade. Many addicts are seeking cures; others have taken to paregoric (camphorated tincture of opium...