Word: contraband
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Next, Reid put a crimp in a favorite military pastime: smuggling in goods for resale at a fat profit. Quietly and firmly, he saw to it that all returning planes and navy vessels were searched for contraband...
...October the committee suggested that Britain and Spain engage in private talks about Gibraltar. Within 24 hours Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered the blockade begun, calling Gibraltar a den of smugglers. On that point Franco was quite right. As a free port, Gibraltar has long been a haven for such contraband as whisky, cigarettes and radios, which are then often smuggled into Spain...
Tonis, who was himself with the FBI for 27 years before joining the University Police, said he had been called by the customs agents who told him they were "looking for a film which had been smuggled into the country as contraband...
...made motions to discourage the clandestine commerce. The number of Polish custom guards has been trebled, and Czech police now even dismantle entire automobiles. But it is obvious that the Red regimes do not care too much so long as a citizen does not make a career out of contraband. The maximum prison term for smuggling is 15 years, but violators rarely get anywhere near that much. Smuggling, after all, relieves some of the growing pressures in Eastern Europe for more and better consumer goods, which the satellite economies so far have proved almost incapable of providing...
Diamonds in Chocolate Bars. By ground, sea and air-they come. The Chilean navy recently fought a noisy battle with the crew of a freighter loaded with a contraband cargo of cigarettes, whisky and, of course, soap. In Venezuela police found themselves confiscating the same launch three times-the smugglers simply kept buying it back at auction. In Argentina one crafty operator kept police baffled by using two planes with the same markings and registration-one for smuggling and one for legitimate freight. Other pros ship Scotch in gasoline tankers, diamonds in chunky chocolate bars, cigarettes under false truck floor...