Word: contrabanding
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...many other ex-combat men with malaria or other recurring tropical diseases have gone the way of Ross? "Not many," says Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger. Chief reason: a shortage of dope. War cut off the supply of contraband drugs to the U.S., and much of the obtainable dope is so watered down that it will not support a habit. Latest U.S. addiction figures: one person per 3,000-one-third as high as after World...
...future of religion is as bright in Russia as anywhere in the world. "Religiously, we should regard Russia as our great ally. It is a virgin field for freedom . . . because Russia never knew freedom of religion until the present regime. When the U.S.S.R. was first formed, religion was contraband, but now the Government has discovered that religion cannot be destroyed, so it has invited the church to come in the front door...
...white opium poppies burst into bloom last week in the barren mountains of Northwest Mexico, setting the stage for melodrama. Troops rode through the hidden valleys, determined to stop the opium harvest. But the contraband harvesters, brown farmers and shepherds, bent on sharing the highest dope prices in history from over the border, eluded the soldiers...
...valiant, skillful flyers of Burma's treacherous Hump route were not all heroes. Last week the Army ruefully revealed that some had been low-grade scoundrels. Working with experienced Chinese, Burmese and Indian gangs, they had been smuggling gold, jewelry, drugs, arms and other contraband from India to China for more than two years, had piled up personal profits amounting to more than $4 million...
Money, Liquor, Women. The racketeers started by selling cigarets, watches, personal odds & ends. Then they branched out, sacrificing valuable cargo space to make room for their contraband, some times interrupting vital flights to get rid of it. Plied with women and liquor by well-heeled crooks, more & more U.S. air men became an integral part of the story book international syndicate that used an elaborate network of fences and even secret codes...