Word: rackets
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...from the mails. (The promoters got around that by using plain envelopes.) Bay Street's sharpies, who used to be known as the "Dirty Sixty," now number only a dingy 30. Before long, under a new U.S.-Canada pact now being drafted, SEC hopes to stamp out the racket entirely. The pact would permit the Justice Department to extradite defrauding stock pushers for trial...
Years of slugging away at the boxing racket have taught moviemakers how to put across this kind of message with less hokum than any other. They have learned how to roughen up a slick exterior, how to use documentary techniques to set up scenes of tough, unglamorized action. The camera moves fast, nervously picking out detail: a monstrous fullback sauntering innocently away from an opponent he has just maimed; the ground rushing up toward a runner who has been blocked once too often; a scattering of hired athletes at a fraternity dance, each as distinct from the eager fraters...
...Korea, Seoul police broke up a protection racket which sold immunity to enemy air attack by pretending to chase away the evil spirits that ride in Communist planes. The racket's take...
They were putting together a new musical, Hold Everything, based on the million-dollar fight racket which Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney had so magically inspired. They had some nice tunes by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson: You're the Cream in My Coffee, Don't Hold Everything. They had Betty Compton. They had Victor Moore. They had a part for Lahr - a punch-drunk fighter named Gink Schiner. What...
...talked. From Hong Kong the trail led to Manila, and grew hotter; once a jeep full of Tommy-gun-toting men ran Ogden to the curb and almost did him in. Finally, in the dusty villages outside Manila, he and Filipino intelligence agents discovered the grassroots base of the racket...