Word: bootlegging
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...shotgunned to death from a passing automobile a week and a day before Scarface Al got out of the pen in 1939. Against Father O'Hare's $250,000 estate, the bulk of which was left in trust to his children, George Remus, once-famed bootleg king and wife-killer, had filed a claim for $196,000 for liquor stolen from his St. Louis warehouses. The rejection of the Remus claim made the inheritance of the O'Hare children secure...
...bootleg business is already more diversified, if not bigger, than it was in Prohibition's peephole days. To the still ample take from bathtub gin and moonshine* has been added the take from tires, scarce metals, chemicals, textiles, typewriters-even stockings...
Wild as the winds on Scotland's Ben Cruachan, red-haired Mrs. McEuen charged that seamen were being driven from her club's pleasant premises to the dismal bootleg joints on the Halifax waterfront...
...that goes with them. Some have even urged that the Government use them as military academies, an offer which the Navy accepted in the case of four universities last week. But the Army and Navy can spare no instructors for leisurely R.O.T.C. courses. Consequently, some colleges are serving up bootleg military training. University of Chicago has a course in military fundamentals (artillery mathematics, military photography, marksmanship) in which it claims to give the basic R.O.T.C. course in half the time...
Skeleton-thin (760 mi. long, 30 to 150 mi. wide) Baja California, like the west coast of Mexico proper, has no adequate Pacific defenses. Its once bootleg-whiskey-rich northern town of Ensenada is a scant 8 1 motor miles from the U.S. naval base at San Diego. The area is extremely vulnerable, despite its deserts and mountains...