Word: racketeered
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...Part of the 'racket'... is to concoct and patent one or more solutions. . . . None of these solutions can be considered useful. Ordinary tap water or physiologic solution of sodium chloride at body temperature is probably more satisfactory...
...local business stories played on the front page. Only a few financial editors have built up a personal following. Best-established in San Francisco is John Stackhouse Piper of the Scripps-Howard News. Born in Caribou Me. 39 years ago, he crusaded last year against the realty reorganization racket, oil royalties, "boiler rooms," bucket shops...
Townsend Plan a Racket...
...artichoke racket is supposed to have collected $1,000,000 annual tribute for the last ten years from New York City artichoke-eaters...
...John O'Hara, Professor Owen apologized, "if any statement of mine is untrue." To newshawks he observed: "Keep your eye on that 'if.' " For the next day's papers. Professor Owen waded into the Rose Bowl game, which he characterized as a $1,000,000 "racket...