Bootleggers will continue to seek creative ways to beat the system.
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To Bethel, Alaska, to explore the cat-and-mouse games of bootleggers.
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There was still danger, and undesirables: bootleggers coming down from Canada and hiding their barrels.
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Bootleggers and moonshiners are often lumped into the same category, but are not the same.
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They are outlaws and bootleggers and, in our older mythologies, witches, ghosts and runaway slaves.
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They focused largely on Prohibition-era whiskey bootleggers, often supplying their own horses and saddles.
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Bootleggers, who engaged in the illicit sale of alcohol, saw an opportunity to increase clientele.
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The left and the right are aligning, like bootleggers and Baptists, to regulate big tech.
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In the words of Brian Johnson, "Moneytalks, B.S. walks" -- and bootleggers are now on notice.
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Bootleggers and Baptists Economists use the term "Bootleggers and Baptists" to describe how powerful interest groups throw their weight behind legislation for their narrow political or economic gain under the guise of protecting the public—often at a cost to society as a whole.
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For most drinkers, that world of bootleggers and secret stills is just a part of history.
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The law here is akin to asking bootleggers to mark their barrels with their contact information.
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Coates has since connected with some of the bootleggers, producing a documentary and book on the topic.
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Bad bootleggers passed a hot needle through the neck of your bottle and drew your whisky out.
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Over the years, its mission expanded to include combating bootleggers and later drug cartels and terrorist groups.
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Along the way, they have interviewed many Russian individuals who were part of roentgenizdat culture, including bootleggers.
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The women watching their car being stripped for parts turn out to be the biggest bootleggers in America.
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They also don't officially release music online, although YouTube bootleggers have ripped their catalog for your streaming pleasure.
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Some of that resembled ordinary police work: busting drug dealers and bootleggers in a country that bans alcohol.
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None of it worked; the black market thrived for years after those cases against the bootleggers in '71.
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From the licensed team shops to the bootleggers slinging gear outside the stadium, no one can do this.
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He banned liquor from the pits and imposed new restrictions on car modifications, obviating the bootleggers' chief ingenuity.
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During Prohibition, American bootleggers used these shores as a hub for Canadian liquor smuggled into the United States.
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After making a lucrative career of defending Chicago bootleggers during Prohibition, Remus decided to get into the action himself.
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Frank Zappa infamously re-bootlegged the bootleggers, and Pearl Jam has been releasing every show on CD since 20163.
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The defiance of prohibition and other societal strictures were exemplified by bathtub gin, bootleggers, speakeasies, flappers and the Charleston.
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Civil asset forfeiture has been legal for a long time — during Prohibition, it was often used to seize bootleggers' cars.
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I took my rack of water and went home, resolving to buy the rest of my clothes from online bootleggers.
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After the mass poisoning, investigators discovered that some bootleggers had produced a batch of boyaryshnik using methanol instead of ethanol.
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This ban means that only those who can afford imported liquor will keep buying from a flourishing network of bootleggers.
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Harry Styles is taking a stand against Nashville bootleggers ahead of 2 big concerts he has coming up in Music City.
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The show ended and the kids milled about outside in the cold December night where bootleggers offered Pump shirts for $10.
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I told him that I was glad to hear "Purple Music," an unreleased track from 1982 in perennial circulation among bootleggers.
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In the case of bootleggers and Baptists, the regulations they pushed for were laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
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The golden age of bootleggers—the messy Vietnam-era kids with their Grateful Dead records and disdain for authority—moved on eventually.
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Since the law went into effect, thousands of people have been arrested and are awaiting trial, but bootleggers have continued to operate.
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Politicians claimed they were merely pursuing the public interest by maintaining the ban, all the while enjoying the economic support of the bootleggers.
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Collectors of any kind are completists, and exploiting that need to finish a set is one way bootleggers take advantage of vinyl enthusiasts.
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Stock-car racing was initially (and unwittingly) invented in the 1930s by bootleggers who souped up their engines to outrun cops during Prohibition.
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Bootleggers would smuggle records from the West and etch makeshift copies of them on discarded X-Ray emulsion sheets fished out of hospital dumpsters.
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For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them.
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In docs, obtained by TMZ, the WWE wants a temporary restraining order to ban bootleggers from selling unauthorized souvenirs and memorabilia bearing WWE trademarks.
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That was also enough time for a plant employee to steal the album and upload it online, to the joy of superfans and bootleggers.
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They all had their trusted bootleggers who negotiated the potholes of Karachi at high speed on disintegrating motorcycles, the hooch stashed on the back.
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It's like bootleggers sneaking booze into a coffee shop, turning off the burglar alarm and using the kitchen to make cocktails instead of cappuccinos.
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It's named after the nearby island through which bootleggers would move boatloads of rum and whiskey to the US under the cover of darkness.
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At the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, near South Dakota's border with Nebraska, bootleggers sell beers for $3 and vodka (mixed with hand sanitiser) for $10.
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During the 20th century, religious groups opposed the sale of alcohol but so did bootleggers who stood to reap increased profits by selling it illegally.
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His administration gave free rein to the carnival of corruption that paralyzed local law enforcement, even, in some cases, turning cops into bootleggers' hired hands.
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Affluent customers in major cities — Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi — can also order alcohol from bootleggers, who often bribe the police to keep their operations going.
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The main industry for many poor backwoods folk and sharecroppers was supplying what bootleggers considered "the best moonshine in the world" to Al Capone's Chicago empire.
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Bootleggers in a dry corner of Alaska, worried their business would collapse, plied voters with free drink to persuade them to vote against going legally wet.
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He thinks bootleggers are the "bottom of the barrel," but he's not cool with people who sneak in recording devices just to share sounds for free.
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Around the world, bootleggers add methanol to counterfeit booze (often in reused brand-name bottles) as a cheap way to increase the potency of their products.
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Rather than lionizing the bank robbers and bootleggers that captivated Americans during the Great Depression, this movie focused on James Cagney as a selfless FBI recruit.
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The store owners are facing a separate threat from the state attorney general in Nebraska, who says they have engaged in illegal alcohol sales to bootleggers.
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The sheriff of Osage County at the time was Harve M. Freas, 58, who weighed 300 pounds and was rumored to cavort with bootleggers and gamblers.
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Cunard plays Betty Bronson, a scrappy secret service detective, sent out to a poor mountain region to investigate and bring to trial whiskey bootleggers, during the Prohibition.
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Mr. Reynolds's Sonny Hooper is a stuntman — a perfectly meta role for an actor who had done his own driving while playing bootleggers, racers and other daredevils.
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But why else was New York such a perfect breeding ground for bootleggers, mafiasos, and the dirty politicians they work with, even compared to other major cities?
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The label called it bath oil and warned against drinking the contents, but it was common knowledge that bootleggers produced the rotgut specifically as poor man's vodka.
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New Delhi, India (CNN)Indian police have launched a crackdown on illegal bootleggers after 80 people were killed drinking toxic moonshine in the country's north, police said.
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Bootleggers began to use the tunnel system to smuggle liquor and to provide access from the US to Mexicali's bordellos and the Chinese opium dens, according to Chen.
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In a career that spanned the first half of the 20th century, he took on lynch mobs and the Ku Klux Klan, survived 52 gunfights and hunted bootleggers.
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It was, he writes, "a cat and mouse game of moves and countermoves" between the bootleggers hawking their knock-offs and the authorities trying to shut them down.
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It goes back more than 90 years to the Jazz Age, when bootleggers defied Prohibition laws by piling cases of whiskey into cars and speeding off to speakeasies.
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As it turns out, no one is merely a sex object in this tale of a romantic collision between high (really high) society and the underworld of bootleggers.
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FBI agents learned that bootleggers used the Corbally Detective Agency to shadow local officers of the Alcohol Tax Unit, the same agency that employed the famous lawman Eliot Ness.
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One model is the United States after Prohibition: alcohol taxes were set low at first, to drive out the bootleggers; later, with the Mafia gone, they were ramped up.
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Some of those returning to the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania to Alabama rejoined family traditions of making moonshine, and with those newly acquired mechanical skills took on work as bootleggers.
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Naturally the feral Westside produces the divided city's finest bootleggers, poets and thieves; naturally the intact Eastside is as complicit in black market liquor deals as it is self-righteous.
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Travis Scott wants his fans to have genuine, bona fide merchandise at his Astroworld shows ... and a judge has agreed to let him put the kibosh on any wannabe bootleggers.
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The report also found that distilled spirits make up 26.043% of the Dominican Republic's black market for alcohol and estimated estimates bootleggers cost the country $262 million in revenue every year.
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But Mexican bootleggers have done swift business making high-octane spirits like raicilla, the notorious black sheep in the family of spirits made of agave, which also includes tequila and mezcal.
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India: As many as 100 people have died in the past few days after consuming cheap, illegal homemade alcohol, rattling the country and prompting the authorities to crack down on bootleggers.
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AC/DC is about to hit the road, and they've got one thing on their minds -- bootleggers making bank off their legendary name ... so, they've fired a preemptive strike against them.
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A few miles west of Coon Rapids, another wrinkle in the Iowa tapestry came into view: Templeton, home of one of the country's most skilled Prohibition-era bootleggers, so goes the legend.
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" According to Beatrice, "You just, like, know [illegal alcohol suppliers aka bootleggers'] numbers, text them and tell them what you want and they drop it off at your house for a fee.
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" According to Beatrice, "You just, like, know [illegal alcohol suppliers aka bootleggers'] numbers, text them, and tell them what you want, and they drop it off at your house for a fee.
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To meet the growing demand of fans—and to stanch the flow of bootleggers—there has been a steady stream of posthumous releases, some of which promise little more than deluxe packaging.
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Live Nation -- the company promoting Madge's upcoming shows at Brooklyn's Howard Gilman Opera House -- has filed legal docs as a preemptive strike against "bootleggers" attempting to hawk bootleg Madonna merchandise nearby the venue.
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He literally was handed a drive-in theater business from his father, who really did build it from nothing with some help from some bookies and bootleggers, of which he was maybe one.
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Live Nation says it has knowledge the bootleggers are licking their chops for these gigs, and it's suing to get a court order for cops to seize all the counterfeit merch and destroy it.
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Chalk one up for the bootleggers: a popular Bristol Street Wear tee that uses the iconic Nike swoosh to support British politician Jeremy Corbyn is the latest addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Nipsey Hussle's team is putting the kibosh on the late rapper's memorial ... because people trying to pay their respects were being hounded by bootleggers and grifters trying to make a buck off his death.
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Though alcohol is illegal on the reservation, it is widely known that beer is easily purchased there — at two or three times the retail price — from the bootleggers who buy it off the reservation.
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Three Ten Merchandising Services got a restraining order in advance of Bey and Jay's Aug 5 concert at the Gillette Stadium outside of Boston to prevent bootleggers from selling knockoff "On the Run II" merch.
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Prince's estate is going after a record label, claiming it's run by a group of bootleggers conspiring to cash in by jacking his tunes and plastering the Prince logo on all their rip-off merchandise.
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Many villagers have vented their fury at police officers, whom they accuse of taking bribes from bootleggers to look the other way while dangerous illegal brews are sold openly along the roads and in markets.
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He also said he plans to file a motion Monday to have the state dismiss a separate case in which the beer stores are accused of several violations of state liquor laws, including selling to bootleggers.
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I searched YouTube for videos offering guidance on how to spot fake Triple S's — there are oodles for Yeezys and Jordans — but the only ones I could find appeared to have been made by bootleggers themselves.
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By mid-2010 she had released a self-titled debut with her band, the Bootleggers, and won the 2010 Telluride Band Contest, a national competition for bluegrass players that the Dixie Chicks won 20 years prior.
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This sleepy farm-belt town was once a thriving community of bootleggers, and the modern version of the local moonshine can be sampled in a tasting room that is itself a small museum of Prohibition-era industry.
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Investigators said bootleggers had been selling the product for a long time without any instances of poisoning, but that the fatal batch was contaminated by methylated spirit, a toxic substance found in cleaning materials and paint stripper.
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This month, Doug Peterson, the Nebraska attorney general, said his office had evidence that the stores had been selling beer after hours and to bootleggers, a violation of state law that could further threaten the stores' existence.
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During the public notice and comment process for the DEA's plan to criminalize kratom, no vocal grassroots constituency emerged in support of the rule — no Baptist to match whatever economic interests (Bootleggers) may have favored the plan.
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The crew manages to prove to the other DJ that they are not the bootleggers and that his equipment manager is actually the perp, but they wind up getting challenged to a DJ battle the next Saturday night.
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In The Origins of the Jump Shot, Christgau says Fulks told Philadelphia sportswriters that liquor had always been in his life, going back to the Birmingham bootleggers, and that in Kuttawa soda fountain Cokes came fortified with whiskey.
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Live Nation claims bootleggers cause huge financial losses, and it's asking the court to order them to turn over any rip-off merch for destruction ... and give cops the power to seize unauthorized items found in the area.
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She also knew which bootleggers were reliable; the speakeasies of 1920s Chicago had nothing on Jane when it came to ensuring that the contraband made it to our compound without hindrance from the religious militants among the insurgents.
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Some of the league's first owners were bootleggers and gamblers who owned racetracks and betting syndicates, so perhaps it was not entirely surprising that Alex Karras, the Detroit Lions defensive tackle, was also among the 15 new entrants.
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As new cases of the Wuhan coronavirus are reported across the globe, online bootleggers are cashing in on another opportunity to sell a dangerous bleach cocktail that they claim can cure malaria, cancer, the flu, and even autism.
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I also hope he starts printing dollar signs on sturdy burlap bags so bank robbers, bookies, counterfeiters, bootleggers, jewel thieves, con men, and other old-school criminals can finally have appropriately marked bags to put their dirty money in.
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Intellectual property theft and the flooding of the market by amateur sex tapes has cut into producers' profits; they can compete with bootleggers and Aunt Fannie and Uncle Bob's home videos only by coming up with more extreme scenarios.
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A journalist with the soul of a mythmaker, Runyon wrote about the exotic fauna of Broadway around the area he called "the Roaring Forties," with its two-bit bootleggers and natty bookies, its fast-talking gangsters and softhearted broads.
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And now Kazaam is a rapper on stage for some reason... Max and his dad are on the run from bootleggers, and Max's dad is way too good at effectively punching people out for it to be just a hobby.
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A single was lost to a record pressing plant closure, and eventually, they stopped altogether—only to come roaring back to life in the early 2000s, thanks the realization that bootleggers were making a fortune off of their debut demo.
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" As a teenager, Mr. Davis played street corners and juke joints around Helena, which at the time was a bustling Mississippi River port, "wide open" with gamblers, bootleggers and honky-tonks, Mr. Davis recalled in the 1984 documentary "Blues Back Home.
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The mountain's prehistoric cave systems, which in previous eras had served as hide-outs for Creek Indians and Confederate soldiers and particularly resourceful bootleggers, were now outfitted with Wi-Fi, several hundred lights (otherworldly greens and purples) and a New Age soundtrack.
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It was ultimate act of punk resistance, a two-fingered salute to the repressive regime that gave a generation of young Soviets access to forbidden Western and Russian music, an act for which Rudy and his fellow bootleggers would pay a heavy price.
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He said that just as mafia groups and bootleggers gave up on illicit moonshine after Prohibition ended in the United States, Mexico's drug gangs would have little interest in a legal marijuana market, especially if it lured in reputable pharmaceutical and tech firms.
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Not surprisingly, the Klan targeted the drinking of those they identified as enemies of "19223 percent Americanism" — Catholics, foreigners and African-Americans — and often gained a foothold in white Protestant evangelical communities with its promise to put bootleggers and moonshiners out of business.
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"I am a throw-away guy but I knew a lot of people who would (help): fans and old drug dealers and bootleggers, and strange followers," said Iggy Pop, whose real name is James Osterberg and was referred to as "Mr Pop" by the moderator.
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In theory — borrowing phrasing from Bruce Yandle, dean emeritus of Clemson University's Department of Economics — the "bootleggers" who pushed for these subsidies as a way to get rich by embracing the green energy dogma of the "Baptists," believed that subsidies begin, but never end.
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While this dot on the map has seen prospectors, prostitutes, miners and bootleggers come and go, it serves as a lesson on the dangers of betting it all on resource extraction, a capricious industry that has left the region scarred by environmental contamination and economic collapse.
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Talk about meet cute: A perfectly paced farcical sequence puts the sea captain Aulay Mackenzie (he of the kilt) on a literal collision course with a hapless bunch of bootleggers led by Lottie Livingstone, who steps up to lead her clan after her father is gravely wounded.
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Eventually, the two friends, along with a population of bootleggers gone straight, moved on to more legitimate businesses: Mr. Crouse put his automotive skills toward selling old cars in Murray, which, thanks to a 1974 article in Popular Mechanics, earned a reputation as the used-car capital of America.
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The decision to repurpose X-rays into records was a logical one: the government had ordered all hospitals in the USSR to discard their film after one year as they were flammable, so bootleggers simply got their hands on this readily available plastic trash and transformed it into LPs.
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Now, we're pretty sure she didn't exit the party belting "Moon River" atop a Parisian terrace or anything, but in our dreams, that's actually exactly what she did; followed by a house party filled with bohemians and bootleggers dancing the night away to "Sally's Tomato" in slow-mo, of course.
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It's a marked improvement on the MiniDisc and DAT recorders of 10 years ago, to say nothing of the clunky reel-to-reel tape recorders from the 60s and 70s that bootleggers used to capture bands along with mics held aloft by their hands or at the ends of broomsticks.
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Look at Gucci's SoHo shop: A couple of blocks over is the new Philipp Plein store, a Times Square interpretation of Madison Avenue; and a couple of blocks south, I saw the bootleggers out in full force, their fake Goyard and Gucci and Supreme standing tall against the hard spring breeze.
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You might find it in the crisp audio of ASMR videos, or a forgotten documentary on American bootleggers, or videos of automatic cake-icing machines, or a YouTube channel about life on an Irish farm, or a half-million other obscure and interesting corners of experience that have been recorded and uploaded.
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But as I drove back to my hotel that night, I could not stop thinking of the many quirks I had encountered throughout my week in Iowa: a self-made cowboy, a remade statesman, a farmer who welcomed the world's leading Communist into his home, Maharishi followers and bootleggers, pie shakes and cheeseburger chowder.
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As Sinacori tells it, patrons of the local Village Wine Shop can find bullets buried in the woodwork, courtesy of the Purple Gang — a gang of infamous bootleggers and hijackers mostly comprised of Jewish immigrants (Sinacori referred to them as "the Jewish Navy") who controlled rum-running in the region all the way to Chicago.
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One hundred years later Neal Dow got his way: Prohibition was the law of the land, an honest man or woman couldn't get a drink in this country, and America was plunged into a state of near civil war with the gangsters and bootleggers who'd risen up to satisfy one of humanity's most basic, most precious, and most God-sanctioned needs.
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In the memoir "Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World" (Random House, 2016), Tim Sultan sheds light on the illustrious Sunny Balzano(1934-2016), the owner of Sunny's Bar on Conover Street, as well as on the colorful past of the area, where "bootleggers distilled, arsonists lit, nuns crossed, longshoremen hauled, unions agitated, kids pelted, gangs brawled."
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