Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered the union in 1907, and has remained militantly dry since; six repeal referendums have been defeated (as much through the bootleggers' efforts as the W.C.T.U.'s). Today there are no open saloons, but a $100 million-a-year bootleg business will supply 400 varieties of liquor at reasonable prices to anyone who wants them. On the other hand, the state loses $15 million each year-in tax revenues, industries refuse to locate in Oklahoma because they think employees will be discontented, and small wars are erupting between bootleggers, e.g., three Oklahoma City boots were arrested last week...
...Pint Pitcher. Feeding on the hypocrisy are the bootleggers, who buy federal retail liquor tax stamps (420 of them this year) to keep in federal good graces, but who openly defy the state. The bootleggers buy whisky wholesale in such outlets as Joplin, Mo. or Dallas, have the cases broken down into "lugs" (packages) of three fifths or six pints each for easier handling, load the lugs into stock cars with heavy-duty rear springs (so the cops cannot detect any telltale sag). They use whatever they believe is the fastest new car available (Oldsmobiles this year in preference...
...average bootlegger makes three trips a week to his out-of-state wholesaler, brings back the lugs to an isolated barn or a garage. From this cache lugs are divided among "pint pitchers," young drivers who distribute the liquor to service stations or barbershops that function as "package stores." More and more, pint pitchers are delivering directly to the consumer; advertising flyers stuck on automobiles or mailed to homes provide the telephone numbers to call, promise 15-minute delivery...
...this, but persons inclined to drink can now find places to booze until midnight, and no similarly disastrous results appear for parties held at other times of the year, or even on occasions like Spring Weekends, where drinking goes on, though not in rooms, from early afternoon until the liquor runs...
Matters have never gotten so serious as to force students to resort to the techniques of prohibition days, when runners ran from speakeasy to speakeasy with rubber tires filled with liquor around their waists...