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Superintendent Jones promptly mustered another crew of company miners for another purpose. On North Mountain they went from one bootleg coal hole to another, grimly dynamited every one. Before Enoch Kuklinskie died of a broken back that evening Stevens Coal Co.'s Shamokin properties were sealed against illegal entry for a long time...
...before Glidden Co.'s Soya Products Division six-story building-once a bootleg brewery-was humming with routine activity. Tons of soy-bean mash seethed in huge vats. An unlucky janitor, going to lunch, turned back to get his coat. That was the last anyone saw of him alive. Suddenly the walls of the building flew out like the staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat...
...raided the apartment of a man whom they had observed buying engraving chemicals in Manhattan. They found a complete counterfeiting plant, discovered their captive was William Watts, 42, long sought by the Treasury as No. 1 U. S. counterfeiter. A one-time druggist who began by engraving labels for bootleg liquor, Watts turned out banknotes so perfect they fooled tellers. In the last four years it was estimated he had circulated about $1,000,000 in bogus bills, including a $20 note with which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau fooled his underlings (TIME, Sept. 9). ¶In Newark...
...raise cotton, twice as many as raise wheat, and he will have to detect and, if necessary, fine and send to jail any others of the 6,000,000 U.S. farmers who might start raising potatoes and any of the 125,000,000 U.S. inhabitants who might buy bootleg potatoes...
Only those who buy or borrow bootleg books got a chance to read the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the most outspoken novel yet written on sexual unhappiness, its cause and cure. Those who read it remember, besides its paeans to physical passion, punctuated by Anglo-Saxon four-letter words and North-country dialect, its Lawrentian plot: how Lady Constance Chatterley, full-blooded young wife to a paralytic peer, sought fulfillment elsewhere and found it with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward...