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G.I.s of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division had an apt nickname for the ROK outfit that relieved them in the line last month: "Van Fleet's Bootleg Division." Bootleg it was, for while Washington had dithered, trying to make up its mind to expand the South Korean army from ten to twelve divisions, doughty General James A. Van Fleet had quietly fleshed out about nine new ROK battalions by rounding up every Korean draftee he could lay his hands on. To blood his raw battalions, Van Fleet fed them one by one into front-line ROK divisions; meanwhile...
...made up its mind to authorize the increase, Van Fleet proudly announced: "We will be ready in two days to activate the 12th ROK division." Back from the front line he pulled his nine battalions; fresh from his 45 training schools came officers and NCOs. A month later, the Bootleg Division was on a 150-mile march to the front, under Brigadier General Yoon Chun Keun, 41, graduate of the Manchurian army academy, who was a regimental commander sitting on the 38th parallel the day the North Koreans opened...
Howard, and his bootlegging really baffled the Crimson; he scored two touchdowns; one on a bootleg, the other on an end sweep, and he passed for one. Howard is ineligible today, but there are always a lot of unknowns on the Dartmouth bench, and there are Miller and Ellis...
...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...
...union shop could be granted. But "the Act still prohibits other forms of union security" because "Congress arbitrarily said 'we know better than unions what is good for employees.' The result could have been predicted. Today several thousand employers and several million employees are operating under bootleg agreements in flagrant violation of the statute." Although Stevenson did not name it, the prohibited form of union security which is now widely bootlegged is the closed shop. The Truman Administration has made little or no effort to check this "flagrant violation" and apparently Stevenson wants to deal with the violation...