Word: contrabanding
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...Allessandri conducted affairs well, for he soon drove a Jaguar, took an expensive apartment. Yet when tax officials called, D'Allessandri could show them no books. Swiss police then raided his headquarters and found a notebook that disclosed a thriving business-not in antiques but in contraband smuggling of strategic goods to Eastern Europe...
...Comparative Morphology and the Geologic History of Vascular Plants. To the wives of the Masters and the masters of the wives, to examiners who give failures, and to the long hairs boycotting the barbers, a very good day indeed. We remember at this juncture the Lamont girls looking for contraband, professors who speak at dinner for 53 minutes exactly, and the man who dared to assume that George Bernard Shaw could be adequately covered in half a course. To all these good people, and to the Cottons and Mathers and Longfellows and Frosts, and to the Ivy League Colleges...
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...with interests in 20 businesses. In Thailand there is no business like the dope business. The U.N. Narcotics Commission brands Thailand as one of the world's biggest opium trade centers. On several occasions, Pao's police made a great show of seizing contraband opium coming across the northern border from China and paid off large government rewards to the informers. But somehow, Pao's cops never arrested any smugglers, and somehow the seized opium had a way of turning up in Bangkok's legal opium dens or in the illegal export market...
Diplomatic Trip. Pibulsonggram also abolished press censorship. This enabled Bangkok newspapers to report that Pao's police had just made an unprecedented haul of 20 tons of contraband opium, and that government rewards paid out for the tip amounted to $1,000,000. Again, no body was arrested. Questioned at the Premier's next press conference, Police Chief Pao could not satisfactorily explain what had happened to the confiscated opium or to the $1,000,000 reward...