Wartime Racketeers
By: by Harry Lever and Joseph Young.
Contributors: Young, Joseph, 1918- joint author.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's sons
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Swindlers and swindling.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction vii; title: 1. Hockshop Heroes 1; title: 2. The Meanest Men 17; title: 3. Pedagogues in Poolrooms 32; title: 4. The Five-and-Dimers 39; title: 5. Welcome, Soldier! 50; title: 6. Mailbox Marauders 61; title: 7. The Perennial Brides 75; title: 8. 'Tiz More Blessed  85; title: 9. There's a Draft Blowing 104; title: 10. The Contrabandists  110; title: 11. The Black Marketeers 127; title: 12. Bonanza in Bottles 144; title: 13. Pipeline to Plunder 155; title: 14. The Counterfeiters 176; title: 15. How Many Lives? 190; title: 16. Black Sheep in Industry 198; title: 17. Cost Plus—Plus! 205; title: 18. The Man in the Middle 216; title: 19. Postwar Prelude 222