Word: rackets
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...copy of the Morning Telegraph and then they buy a 50 cent "hot tip" card. After they pore over these for half an hour, they stick a pin into their programs and rush down to the window to slap two bucks on a nag that's in the race racket because it's too old to pull a milk wagon...
...Scott and Douglas Kennedy, owners of the Three Bell Ranch. The complicated action is sped up-as well as made more complicated-by cattle-rustling Victor Jory who, working as a Union Army guerrilla fighter, steals their cattle, burns down their ranch, and starts cutting in on their gunrunning racket...
Bosses of Havana's embattled bus company, the Cooperativa de Omnibus Aliados, have suffered and bled for years over the old Cuban custom of filtración. Under this time-honored racket, unscrupulous conductors on the company's rickety, orange-painted guaguas (pronounced wah-wahs) have filtered up to 40% of each day's fares into their own pockets. Last year, in a desperate effort to replace the conductors with temptation-proof turnstiles, the company offered to retire all surplus conductors at full pay. Their union-the Sindicato de Empleados de Omnibus Aliados-refused...
...University of Washington had taken its stand: last week, it was taking the consequences. As might have been expected, the firing of three professors-two for being Communists and one for refusing to say under investigation (TIME, Jan. 31)-had raised a racket. So far, most of the howls were coming from the protesters...
...make my living writing science-fiction . . . and characters like Wiener are lousing up the racket...