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...manufacture of bootleg whisky, once pretty well confined to eleven Southern "moonshine" states, is no longer an amateur, hillbilly operation. Racketeers in big cities have made it big business. Big stills have been found in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark and New York. Thomas J. Donovan, vice president of Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc., said at an industry gathering last week that racketeers now build stills that cost from $50,000 to $75,000, peddle their output through Manhattan parking lots, neighborhood candy stores and tenement speakeasies. "Obviously," concluded Donovan, "they aren't doing it simply on speculation. They know they...
Robert E. Lee, reporter, United Press Associations in Washington. A native of Newark, N. J., graduate of Amherst College. He plans to study history and politics...
...Newark's Hays Park East pool last week, Skippy had one item of unfinished business to take up: the A.A.U.'s National Outdoor championship. Browning won this title in 1949, but he was a runner-up the next two years. To complete his unparalleled one-man sweep, he had to retake...
...project was so attractive that two of the largest U.S. investment bankers, Manhattan's Dillon, Read & Co. and Glore, Forgan, have agreed to help raise 70% of the cost from big insurance lenders, the rest in equity capital. Ryan, who is planning to deliver gasoline from Beaumont to Newark for a cost of 29? per barrel v. an average of 38? by tanker, expects no trouble in lining up customers from the 50-odd U.S. oil companies with refineries in the Beaumont-Shreveport, La. area...
...First we drove to Philadelphia to attend the wedding of one of Spyros' Greek friends. Then we drove to Newark for the funeral of a second one. Between times we stopped off at half a dozen Greek restaurants, in each of which Spyros gave a banquet for a swarm of other friends, assembled on the spur of the moment. We got to Rye all right, but not until late the next afternoon...