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Black Tires, Black Coffee. The sheer lack of tires, first black-market commodity, has today almost eliminated them from off-the-market deals. But OPA is still catching up with the bootleg tire gangs that flourished in the days when there were still some to bootleg. In contrast, coffee is still too newly rationed for the gangs to have caught up with it, may well be too scarce (and too precious to the consumers who have all the ration cou pons) ever to become a serious problem...
...Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...
...young friend is a sergeant pilot-making $144 a month. He can afford the bootleg liquor. So he's not learning to drink beer or good whiskey on his nights off-but to drink rotgut straight. As he told me this morning, amid groans, "the stuff tastes so terrible, the only thing you can do is to get drunk as quick as possible so you can't taste...
...broadcast; by the time the jamming station catches up to it, it may be on the move again. Furthermore, BBC's European Service at the end of its 16-hour day of broadcasts in 24 languages slowly taps out the news in Morse code (almost jam-proof). Bootleg "freedom" stations leap from one frequency to another, when, where and how they please. They often spend a 15-minute news period repeating four sentences over & over again, confident that if listeners catch an occasional word they will be able to piece the message together like a jigsaw puzzle...
...forms "reached the dimensions of a small window shade" (at the same time that WPB prohibited the sale of wide-carriage typewriters). Worst of all, the committee found that, despite an early Nelson order allegedly limiting data requests, eager WPBureaucrats "with convenient mimeograph machines" were sending out sheaves of "bootleg" forms, not to mention countless stop-the-press telegraphic requests for information and duplicating queries from decentralized regional offices...