Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their time, the Shelton gang had been responsible for scores of violent deaths. They were whiskey runners, saloon keepers and slot-machine operators. They fought the Ku Klux Klan, fought the law, bought up sheriffs. But mostly they battled a tough, boastful gangster named Charley Birger...
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...Rocco," Huston says, "was supposed to represent a sort of evil flower of reaction. In other words we are headed for the same kind of world we had before, even down to the gang lords . . . There is great talk of the good old days and prohibition; in other words, return to the old order . . . I tried to make all the characters old-fashioned (the gangster's moll is out of the '20s), to brand them as familiar figures, and to suggest they were ready to take over again...
Nowadays, their 175-man construction gang does the entire job, from foundations to shell, but installations (plumbing, lighting, etc.) are farmed out to subcontractors. Since the Liberty partnership began operation, it has sold $6,500,000 worth of houses-at an average price of $14,000, an average profit of about 10%-and borrowed more than $5,000,000 to keep on building. Such narrow margins permit no dillydallying: before last week's 105-house sale, Liberty had already begun to lay the foundations for 47 houses in an adjoining area; they would be ready in about four months...
...hoot in hell whether it pleases other newspapers or editors or makes them sick . . . We're for the general public, its likes and dislikes, its peeves and aspirations, in so far as we're able to divine the same. We've been out with the gang exactly 29 years today, and we ain't snuggling up to the highbrows...