Word: bootlegged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...bone. Normal British meat consumption is one pound and three-quarters per person per week. But liver, kidneys, tongue, sausage will not be rationed, and restaurants may sell meat meals irrespective of ration cards, but their meat supply will be cut 40%. Government inspectors are on the alert for bootleg butchers...
...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...
...history professor labeled the notes "a variety of bootleg manufactures of wood alcohol, producing blindness in examination," and further declared, "They are a waste of money to buy and treacherous...