Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teamed with his late brother George 'also twice a bankrupt)* in a real estate leal that came under the scrutiny of a graft-hunting investigation in New York City. For $25,000 cash the Garssons got property that was soon condemned for park extension and bought by the city...
...water buffalo, into the country. But only a trickle had got where they were needed most. The bulk of the supplies piled up in warehouses, filtered down into the depths of the black market, enriched the morass of government corruption and "squeeze" (China's term for "honest graft...
...Flour supplied free by UNRRA was being sold far above the average Chinese's means. UNRRA Ford trucks were selling at $3,750 (gold). The Chinese people, starving almost within the dreamlike sight of rich rice and yellow wheat, hardly protested: they were too accustomed to inefficiency and graft. Nevertheless, dawning anger at their plight came like thunder out of China last week. Over 200 local UNRRA officials sent a cable to their boss in Washington: "We have come from many places in the world [to make] UNRRA's goal a reality [but] it is our considered judgment...
Charges of graft involving Schmitz, Boss Abe Reuf, the Southern Pacific Co.'s subsidiary United Railways (precursor of the Market St. Railway) grew so loud that even tolerant San Franciscans were aroused. The only reason they did not act immediately was because of a louder noise. The earth moved. The city tumbled down in dust and fire. When San Franciscans, recovering from the earthquake, found time, they clapped Reuf in jail...
...Soviet Union has a social system of its own, but borrows from others. Last week it disclosed three borrowings: from idolatry, graven images; from capitalism, graft; from tribal jurisprudence, group punishment for individual guilt...