Word: racketeered
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...Educational institutions, as the big-time football racket shows, cannot resist money...
...every house-Budapest must disappear from the face of the earth before Russian troops may have it. Ruling the ancient city's defenders was one of the grimmest, most corrupt of Nazis: Palestine-born, Hebrew-speaking SS Obergruppenführer Karl Eichmann, who had made an enormous racket out of Hungary's anti-Semitic campaign. (He hired out the healthy, executed the aged and halt, opened escape routes to the wealthy...
...vast racket did not by any means involve the great majority of Army personnel engaged in Hump operations (although the Army's failure to give names and figures did not help to correct that impression). But the guilty minority included scores of officers and enlisted men, plus some employes of the China National Aviation Corp., former Flying Tigers, Red Cross workers, and miscellaneous U.S. and British technical and business representatives...
...inquiry that led to uncovering the racket was started more than a year ago, when Chinese bandits who were hijacking U.S. trucks were found to be armed with smuggled U.S. weapons. Under Colonel Harry Cooper, of Baltimore, a former U.S. secret service operator, Army investigators have cleared up 87 major cases (all involving profits over $5,000) and 213 minor ones, have virtually stamped out big-scale smuggling by U.S. personnel...
...vital rubber city of Akron last week was beating off a streamlined version of the old labor-pirating racket. Swamped with war orders and short of skilled workers, 20 small, back-alley machine shops had hijacked machinists from bigger war plants. Their system was simple: each would hire someone else's skilled worker away as a "private contractor," let him "bid" on each job he turned out and "rent" the machine he worked on. Technically, this wile put the worker in business for himself. Thus the worker who changed jobs needed no WMC statement of availability, and by "bidding...