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Foodleggers. One sinister development that aggravated the food situation was the rise in wartime Britain of a new kind of criminal: the food racketeer. Like gangsters who terrorized the U.S. under Prohibition, foodleggers have highjacked trucks ...
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All branches of the retail industry agreed that the plan, far from being selfish on our part, would [provide] food in normal and equitably established channels, making food available for all types of stores without creating foodleggers and black markets.
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Recent price controls on butter are rapidly helping to make this item as popular as meat with "foodleggers," and the ceilings on fresh vegetables are an open invitation to black market operators to enter this field.
Source: wiktionary
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