Word: contraband
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customs inspector, searching for contraband U.S. goods near two U.S. bases, was threatened with arrest by a gun-toting U.S. captain. The Newfoundland supreme court awarded damages to the customs man, but nobody paid...
...fifth time in 41 years, Oklahoma's wets did their doggondest to repeal the state prohibition law. Everyone would be far better off, they argued, if whisky were sold legally-and taxed-instead of just sloshing around the state as contraband, making cops greedy and bootleggers rich. This appeal to sweet reason was dramatized by the fact that the repeal group's leader, Tulsa Attorney Albert G. Kulp (rhymes with gulp), was a bone-dry teetotaler himself...
Last fortnight, just as the Marlin was to sail from St. Lucia, a woman screamed that someone had stolen her demijohn. When police went aboard the Marlin, they uncovered hams, butter, soap, cloth, shoes and other contraband. Goods and traffickers were hustled off to the hoosegow. The women pleaded Martinique's hunger, and the police relented. Late in the day they let the Marlin sail, with a warning that next time things would go harder...
...Contraband. In Hof, Germany, a Russian-zone housewife was arrested trying to sneak into the U.S. zone with two smoked cats and a smoked...
...languid Fred MacMurray as a pearl smuggler. He marries deep-chested Ava Gardner just in time to lose track of her when the Japanese take Singapore. After the war he comes back to look for her and for some pearls he hid in an electric fan. He and his contraband manage a relatively placid reunion, having to contend only with British law and with a crook (Thomas Gomez...