Word: mainstreeter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporter gave them the idea that started the sparks flying. Like everyone else in Central Falls they had known all along that illegal slot machines, bookies and back-room gamblers were doing a fat $1 million-a-year business. There were slot machines in half the city's mainstreet stores. Up until now they had obediently heeded unofficial warnings not to do anything about it. But a good lively raid might get them a better break...
...wagons-with a driver and four first-aiders each, were parked behind the post office-quietly, not to alarm the public. Just in case the public did get alarmed, 50 auxiliary police ringed the hotel to keep unauthorized people out. Coast Guardsmen formed a cordon around the wharf, detoured mainstreet traffic that might interfere with operations...