Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past four years, the value of a case at Rum Row has averaged between $20 and $25. Assuming the Pellegrini carried only 10,000 cases a mere 75-ft. schooner will carry 5,000-the value of her cargo would approximate a quarter of a million dollars...
...crew set busily to work, preparing the cases for delivery over the ship's sides. Occasionally, a mate would gaze expectantly over the waters, looking for the swift little rum runner which would surely come. Hours passed. Then, suddenly, four small motor craft raced into sight, came up to the Pellegrini, but not alongside. They circled around and around-picket boats of the U. S. Coast Guard...
...German steamer, half unloaded, decided to leave Rum Row a fortnight ago. Last week, she returned. No rummies came to her side. Two indefatigable picket boats greeted her. Surly, she departed once more...
...this armada took up a position on Rum Row-a line running about 200 miles from Southwest to Northeast, about 30 miles offshore from Atlantic City, N.J., to New London, Conn...
Contributing quite as much to this result as the presence of the armada itself was the presence of a bolder, more ferocious spirit. Hitherto, U. S. vessels have sighted rum runners scurrying to shore, have urged them to stop, have even fired a wild shot. But the rum launches, faster than the average picket boat, have simply scurried on. The Coast Guard seamen have not been shooting with intent to kill...