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Equipped with sensitive long-range direction finders, FCC's monitors undertake by triangulation to locate the general area in which any bootleg sender-on land, sea or air - is functioning. The inspectors from the secondary stations set out in innocent-looking sedans, fitted with receivers, recorders, direction finders and an FM transmitter with which to talk to one another. Favorite parking place sought by the mobile units is a cemetery, where there are no lights, telephones or overhead wires to interfere with monitoring work. Often field inspectors sleuth around for days before they root out the ethereal blind...
...monitoring crews. Often they trace an illegal transmitter to a large office building. They find out which office houses the set by using portable detector outfits, small enough to fit into a vest pocket and equipped with indicators geared to rise with proximity to the transmitter. Most such bootleg equipment is used by gamblers, who are often able, by means of quick flashes, to place last-minute bets on horse races already...
...bootleg liquor and bathtub gin made their first appearance. The Crimson emerged from that game with the "foot" in football very evident. Charlie Buell kicked two field goals, Arnold Horween one, for the game's only scores. The next two years saw almost identical games. Yale entered the favorite, emerged beaten 10 to 3, with Charlie Buell and George Owen doing yoeman service for the winners on both occasions...
...spoken in China, Alcott is an aerial "must." At 8 in the morning, at 1 p.m. and at 10:15 at night, an audience estimated at well over 250,000 gathers around radios in barrooms, homes, hotels and missionary outposts to listen to his breezy newscasting. He provides bootleg radio fare for such Japanese centres as Mukden, Dairen and Nanking, is heard in embassies at Tokyo and Peking. Droll and irreverent, Alcott airs all Japanese protests against his show, constantly cracks at a pair of typical Japanese named "Mr. Suzuki" and "Mr. Watanabe," whom he uses to serve...
...tons in 1917, the industry was Pennsylvania's No. 1 source of income. By 1932 it was her No. 1 headache. Of last year's estimated 48,800,000-ton output, about 8% was cut from abandoned workings and peddled by some 10,000 bootleg miners. Otherwise unemployed, they made an average $19.50 a week, undersold legitimate producers as much as $2 a ton. On the ropes from soft coal, oil and gas competition, high freight rates and depression, producers were in no shape to fight back. State or Federal regulation threatened to stop the fight...