Word: bootlegged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What effect the bootleg publication of his novel will have on Author Pasternak, 67, is questionable. Probably he will survive; he has been out of favor before (in 1946 for bourgeois tendencies), presumably knows how to bow to "human authority" as well as his colleague, Novelist Dudintsev. When asked at a recent diplomatic cocktail party what would become of irksome Author Dudintsev, Dictator Nikita Khrushchev replied blandly: "I intend to see him. He will continue to write, but there will be nothing for which world capitalists will sing his praises...
MOONSHINE WHISKY accounts for 25% of U.S. liquor consumption, says Licensed Beverage Industries Inc., and bootleg output of about 76 million gallons a year costs almost $1 billion in lost taxes. Law officers nipped 25,608 moonshine stills in 1956. Palatable Southern moonshine is now going into northern cities, is often used to refill bottles of name brands and sold in bars...
Dutch & Lucky. On the New Deal tide Jimmy rode high. His pockets crammed with money, he fronted for an army commanded by a young man named Arthur Flegenheimer, better known to his fellow racketeers and murderers as Dutch Schultz. While Schultz and his mob prospered in bootleg whisky and the numbers racket, Hines provided the necessary protection. Uncooperative policemen were shifted to faraway beats, district attorneys obligingly quashed indictments, amiable Hines magistrates freed the small fry. Into Hines's personal treasury came -in addition to the customary kickbacks from city employees and officials-vast wads of money from Schultz...
...anyway, and it's too dangerous ... So the only way you're going to do any good is cards, high dice. Like I told you all along, cards and book, and then if you get into the pinballs and punchboards, that's all right. That bootleg joint, if it'll-if it will go if you can make anything. That's all right. I don't see any reason to close that down...
...wiry (5 ft. 6 in., 130 lbs.), Texas-born family man and Episcopal churchgoer, has faced hazards before. In 1947 he was threatened with death for writing a series that led to conviction of an out-of-state gang that had tried to take over Oklahoma's bootleg industry. Another Bulloch series ended with the biggest liquor and gambling raids in Oklahoma history. In 1952 Bulloch was warned again, and the Mayes County prosecutor was killed during a gambling investigation on which they had worked together. After he reported buying absentee ballots simply by posing as a candidate. Oklahoma...