WIPED OUT IN U.S.
BLACK MARKET FOR LIQUOR
WASHINGTON, October 18. The liquor black market which was transacting millions of dollars' worth of business at the beginning of 1944 has been completely wiped out as a result of steps by the Federal and State agencies, says the Price Administrator, Mr. Bowles.
Violators of the liquor regulations paid more than 1,000,000 dollars in* fines settlements in the first seven months of the year. The president of one liquor company was fined 100,000 dollars and sentenced to 30 days' gaol. A master plan cracked the gigantic black market and broke up largescale racketeering rings, whose participants are being punished.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 95, 19 October 1944, Page 8
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