Word: doped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone who knew what went on behind the grey post-Capone fagade, it was all a base canard. Surviving kinsmen and colleagues of Al had expanded all their mentor's old rackets-the bookie room, the call houses, the gambling joints, the numbers games and the dope runs. Striving for real class-the quiet stuff-they had moved into riches and power that Al never dreamed of. The trick was done by plowing their illicit earnings into legitimate channels. One man who knew plenty about "The Outfit" of 1950 was William J. Drury, a handsome Irish...
...Sleeping City, filmed almost entirely in New York's Bellevne Hospital, this picture deals with the narcotics problem. Richard Conte, turned detective for this opus, walks the wards in search of dope fiends. At the RKO Keith Memorial...
...round hole," added later that Pike had always been opposed to the H-bomb. "I don't know what their gripe is," Pike declared. "Whatever the reason was, it wasn't stated either directly or by innuendo." Last year, because "we didn't have the dope in front of us as to what we would be getting for what we were spending," he had been doubtful about the H-bomb, he added. But "as the facts came in, my attitude did change." One guess on the turndown was that Pike, a liberal Republican, had piqued the Senators...
Golden was surprised and pleased by the visit, a strangely unorthodox one in a period of bitter industrial strife. He advised the two to dope out a way of enlisting worker cooperation to keep the business going. So Scanlon sat down with the management and worked out the first edition of his productivity plan. Under it, the workers were encouraged to suggest ways of increasing productivity, and were rewarded by bonuses for any such increase. The men in the plat thus became participating members in the enterprise, with a stake in the company's success and responsibility for its success...
...Straight Dope. In San Quentin, Calif., George Vierra, serving a seven-year stretch, got a sentence of one to six more years after guards found him in his cell preparing marijuana that he got from the prison stone quarry...