Word: doping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voss and his partner L. 0. Dearden, another victim of the crash, were not only dentists but dope smugglers. Working with a former Air Force Officer named Pleass they would take frequent trips from the continent by air, drop packages of dope attached to tiny silk parachutes from the plane windows at pre-arranged spots. According to this story they knew that they were to be arrested when the City of Liverpool landed. Dr. Voss set fire to the plane, cremating his partner and his niece, and jumped on the 1,000-to-1 chance that he might escape with...
...narcotic sleuth. Because of his intense campaign to shut off the sources of Egypt's enormous narcotic trade, secret agents all over the world send their reports to Chief Russell and act on his recommendations. Last week he issued his fourth annual report on the state of the dope industry...
...service to the League of Nations narcotics limitation conventions of 1925 and 1931 and passed laws prohibiting cultivation, manufacture or transportation of hashish (Indian hemp) in French Syria. But nothing was said about possession. Syrians can and frequently do turn their mud-walled houses into warehouses for smuggled dope...
...into France and Germany in double-bottomed trunks, en route for the U. S., Egypt and the Far East. One kilo of heroin equals 250,000 medical doses. At this rate Balkans Products is producing 187,500,000 medical doses monthly, or a double dose for 3,000,000 dope fiends daily...
Thomas Wentworth Russell may be an ardent and efficient dope sleuth. He is also a tactful Briton. Nowhere in his report did he mention India or Britain...