Word: bootleg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Satisfaction for $15. Bootlegging syndicates, reported Mathis, are so well entrenched "that a police officer who is too diligent in enforcing the liquor laws in the best dry areas can lose his job." In one county, he found, a $4,500-a-year sheriff was offered $18,000 for protection. In another he discovered bootleg liquor stores that guarantee payment of customers' fines if they are arrested with their purchases within a three-mile "safety zone." Said Mathis: "Gangsterism is a fact...
...United Drys. The state was dry when it entered the union in 1907, and has remained militantly dry since; six repeal referendums have been defeated (as much through the bootleggers' efforts as the W.C.T.U.'s). Today there are no open saloons, but a $100 million-a-year bootleg business will supply 400 varieties of liquor at reasonable prices to anyone who wants them. On the other hand, the state loses $15 million each year-in tax revenues, industries refuse to locate in Oklahoma because they think employees will be discontented, and small wars are erupting between bootleggers...
...personal foul against Princeton netted the Crimson a 30-yard gain after the Tigers had kicked off, and the varsity used it to set up its first score. Consecutive runs by Dodge brought the ball to the Princeton seven, where Botsford, on a bootleg play tossed to Tom Hooper, clear in the end zone...
Later in the same period, after Penn had intercepted a Simouran pass at midfield, the Quakers moved in eight plays for a score. The touchdown was a 20-yard pass from Ross to end Dick Schaefer all alone in the end zone. Actually, Ross' bootleg execution fooled the whole defense, allowing Schaefer to get beyond both Simourian and Joslin...
...been arrested two years before in a police raid on a bootleg still. Included in the LaMarca file were documents that LaMarca himself had signed in green ink. The agents rushed their evidence to field headquarters, where technicians made their analysis...