Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweet Racket...
...following information concerning a local police trap operated in Bay St. Louis, Miss. is of interest to all commercial travellers who have occasion to pass through that State. In publishing this warning you will be doing thousands of travelling men a great favor and help to break up this racket. The following is an exact and truthful resume of what happened to me. For substantiation I enclose the official documents in the case...
...Texas, etc. all have control stations at the State line with State officers on duty. All commercial vehicles are assessed according to weight and type of vehicle. These fees are reasonable and I have heard no complaints from other salesmen about these States. Mississippi, however, is operating a vicious racket which is taking thousands of dollars a year from salesmen. And I mean the salesmen, not the companies they work for; for as a rule, while the company pays all interstate fees, the salesman must pay his own fine...
...writer has just read about the Supreme Court decision in regard to the Fuller Brush Co. [TIME, March 22]. The issuance of door-to-door peddling licenses has gotten to be quite a racket in some of the smaller towns of this Slate. If a farmer goes to town with a load of peaches or watermelons they take his finger prints like he was a criminal. Some peddlers have learned to drive by the Mayor's home and leave a big watermelon or bushel of peaches. Then things are hunka dory. Insurance men get in a town and make...
...usual, the chief victim of this lucrative international racket was the U. S., which grows no rubber, uses more than one-half the world's supply. Henry Ford, with his 2,500,000-acre concession in the heart of Brazil's Amazon jungles, hopes eventually to free himself if not the U. S. from its vulnerable dependence on Far Eastern rubber...