Word: smugglers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relatives got Refugee Woloski as far as Cuba. But he could not get on the quota, could not get a visa as a student, could not get work. At a restaurant where refugees congregate in Havana's cobbled barrio judio (Jewish quarter), he met a smuggler's agent named Simowitz. The price...
Just before dawn in Peiping's model prison a policewoman called to Yoshiko Kawashima through the barred opening of her cell. But Yoshiko slept soundly. Her cell mate, Mrs. Li, a middle-aged opium smuggler, shook her. Said Mrs. Li in great compassion: "Get up, foolish-elder brother...
...worse than typical assembly-line job. A lot of technical competence, a certain amount of talent and a staggering amount of time and money have been marshaled into a quiet, polished frenzy about nothing whatever. The picture presents a forgivably languid Fred MacMurray as a pearl smuggler. He marries deep-chested Ava Gardner just in time to lose track of her when the Japanese take Singapore. After the war he comes back to look for her and for some pearls he hid in an electric fan. He and his contraband manage a relatively placid reunion, having to contend only with...
Just before it became a ghost in 1894, the crowded, rough mining town of Aspen, Colo, had a last burst of excitement. From Smuggler Mine on a nearby slope, prospectors took out a nugget of almost pure silver weighing 2,060 pounds...
Drug on the Market. In Laredo, Tex., at the Mexican border, U.S. customs in spectors seized their first penicillin smuggler...