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Liquor Black Market 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 the result of enforcement steps by Federal and State Agencies, says the Price Administrator. Mr Chester Bowles. Violators of the liquor regulations paid more than 1.009.000 dollars in fires and settlements in the first seven months of the year. The president of one liquor company was fined 100,009 dollars and sentenced to 30 days’ gaol Mr Bowles said that a master plan cracked the gigantic black market and broke up large-scale racketrcr.'.n-’ rings, whose participants are being punished
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23030, 23 October 1944, Page 6
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110WIPED OUT Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23030, 23 October 1944, Page 6
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