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...prowling Federal searchlight stopped to glare at 16 corporations, 36 individuals. The most glaring searchlight of its kind ever to be directed against big U. S. businesses, it challenged them for conspiring to divert industrial alcohol into bootleg alcohol...
...plan last week. The Government, having switched from cards to stores, raised most prices 50%. This may or may not choke off the expected rush of buyers. If it seems to choke too hard, the State will prevent strangulation by lowering prices. German banks, who do a little bootleg business in rubles,* reported last year that they were getting batches of Soviet banknotes all bearing the same serial number. Naturally the holder of U. S. Treasury silver certificate number M71525894A entitling him to one silver dollar, hopes that nobody else has a bill of the same number entitling them...
According to the missionaries, not only is opium grown and consumed without restriction in six provinces (see map), but elsewhere and in provinces where it is barred by law bootleg opium and smok-easies flourish. More serious, illegal "taxes" are collected on opium in many places, graft and corruption flourish on the weed...
...last two Kings of Siam have fostered temperance and monogamy by precept & example. After studying conditions throughout the Occident, after pondering the advisability of restrictive regulations, King Prajadhipok and his predecessor decided that the risk of inflicting on Siam bootleg liquor and bootleg immorality was too great...
...error. Bootleg prices have been forced down by the Depression, standard brands of champagne crashing from a high of $155 to about $75 per case. French Benedictine has declined from $10 to about $6, native Benedictine to $3 or less...