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Liquor Black Market (Received October 18, 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October IS. 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 enforcement steps by. the Federal 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 fiued 100.000 dollars .and sentenced to 30 days’ jail. A master plan cracked the gigantic black market and broke up large-scale racketeering rings, whose participants are being punished.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 21, 19 October 1944, Page 5
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110ELIMINATED IN U.S. Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 21, 19 October 1944, Page 5
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