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Word: kalo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the house on Goethe Street police found a well-equipped laboratory complete with all the necessary equipment for making heroin out of opium. Calmly washing her hands after making a fresh batch was the chatelaine, grey-haired, motherly Mme. Kalyopi Kalo-gridi, a Greek woman whose title "Queen of the Smugglers" had been well earned in two criminal convictions and the bet ter part of a lifetime spent in the illicit drug trade. Kalyopi's Teheran plant was capable of turning out each week up to 110 Ibs. of deadly dope worth nearly $500,000 on the wholesale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Heady Nougat | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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