Word: bootlegs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BOOTLEG sales of new 1954 cars at cut-rate prices to used-car dealers is becoming a serious problem. Both Ford and General Motors have sent letters to their 26,200 dealers warning that any dealer caught selling new automobiles below the list price may lose his franchise...
Many a teacher secretly rebels, "bootlegs" reading early in the first grade (which is not yet considered ready to begin it) and script writing in the second grade simply because she feels it is her duty to the children. Others "bootleg" hard, oldfashioned, rigid authoritarianism and rule their charges with threats and fear. A great majority, however, conscientiously try to bring understanding and sympathy to their classrooms...
Back in the Mussolini era, Carlo Corbisiero, part-time barber, brawler and bully boy of the village of Marzano di Nola, near Naples, was pretty proud of his nickname-"Crackshot." For years the local carabinieri had tried to nail him for bootlegging, petty theft and antiFascism, without success. Then one day in 1934, word reached the village that Crackshot Carlo was wanted on a highway robbery and murder rap. Carlo left his dark-eyed mistress and their two illegitimate children behind and took to the hills. Two weeks later he decided to give himself up for trial. "I am innocent...
Private Industry. In Moscow, Soviet officials revealed that a wine-store manager in the Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic had been convicted of cheating the state of 120,000 rubles by selling bootleg vodka...
High federal taxes on liquor have produced a growing bootleg industry, and not all of it is hidden away in mountain valleys. Last week in Brooklyn, federal investigators made one of their biggest finds since prohibition days. Residents reported an aroma of mash in the wind and yeasty bubbles on the East River. Agents followed their noses to a two-story abandoned waterfront warehouse, climbed a six-foot metal fence, had a scuffle with a Doberman pinscher (which bit two of them), broke down three doors, and found a still which cost $50,000 to build. It could turn...