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...market had opened up weeks before when 17-year-old Bruce Wier, a high-school senior (whose parents are in Oregon), raided a ration board, swiped enough stamps for several thousand gallons. He peddled them at Skateland, got $3 to $5 for a strip of 24 three-gallon stamps. Some boys bought job lots and resold them. Babyfaced, nonchalant Wier was finally apprehended and removed to the Federal Correctional Institution in Arapahoe County. Said he proudly: "I blew probably more than $1,000 on wine, women and song, like they say in stories...
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