Word: contraband
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Border guards have tried to stamp out the smuggling with extra patrols and more careful searches. The courts have stiffened the penalties for large-scale smuggling, raising the customary $200 fine to $1,000 and confiscating trucks caught carrying contraband. But the flood, estimated at 50 million bootleg cigarettes a month, continues unabated. The price is too good, the demand too great, the border too long and too free...
...list of "suspect" magazines, liable to banning, were many general U.S. magazines. Latest to feel the sting of Dönges' whip were bookstores. A fortnight ago, he ordered that all imported books be kept unopened in specially sealed bags until customs men could inspect them for "contraband" literature. In Johannesburg, there was a single customs man to cover 25 booksellers. Harried by clamoring customers, their stores crammed with unopened parcels, the booksellers cried for "relaxation." Last week they got it. The government told the stores "you may receive your book parcels as freely" as before, but added...
...steely-eyed Hans Isbrandtsen fervently denies that his ships have ever carried "contraband," although in modern war there are few goods which are not helpful in some way to a warring nation. Says he: "Our business is solely to deliver the goods where we have contracted to deliver them. We do not change [our] schedule because of rumors of danger and possible unlawful interference...
...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...