单词 | rumrunner |
例句 | British producers from the BBC came calling, and she appeared on television, sharing tales from her rumrunner days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Earlier that year, the Coast Guard had spotted the I’m Alone in the Gulf of Mexico, sailing in coastal lanes that rumrunners often used. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The turning point came in 1940, when the Coast Guard started detecting new code signals coming from unlicensed wildcat stations like the ones the rumrunners had used. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At the office, she also “got together the present situation: how many rumrunners were involved, where they were going, what they were doing...and made sure that I had all of the dates.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Soon thousands of radio intercepts were pouring into her office, just as they had done during the rumrunner days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Packard snakes along, following the tire tracks of other rumrunners. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In 1951, during a keynote speech about code breaking and the rumrunner years, she spoke up about the general problem of addiction. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Head of the Coast Guard’s Intelligence Section—and, for a time, its only member—he tracked every detail he could discover about the rumrunners’ vessels. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When she broke them, she wasn’t surprised to discover that they were from rumrunners. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Once they broke a message going out to a rumrunner that said, “Inform Andrew his wife has just had twins.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Thanks in no small part to her decryptions, the Coast Guard was intercepting many more rumrunners, depriving the crime bosses of their profits. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But when that didn’t work, the rumrunners didn’t hesitate to shoot at Coast Guard vessels and crews. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Soon the rumrunners were transmitting their messages in codes and ciphers that Root could not break. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Thanks in part to their efforts against the rumrunners, the Coast Guard’s network covered the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z To his best recollection, his father, Gustave, “was a rumrunner,” he said. Sam Glanzman, Comic-Book Artist Inspired by His War Service, Dies at 92 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z With its then-porous land border and miles of wild coastline, Tijuana and neighboring northern Baja California towns proved too tempting to resist for many opportunistic rumrunners during those dry years. In Tijuana, searching for Al Capone 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Instead, he transforms into a gangster, bootlegger and rumrunner in the dark underbelly of Tampa’s Ybor City district. A Comeback King Fights His Way Back Into the Ring 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z And by doing that, these rumrunners, you know, who worked for Al Capone or whoever else, were able to sort of run circles around the Coast Guard. This Code Breaking Quaker Poet Hunted Nazis 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z A Detroit chorus girl weds her stage producer without telling her rumrunner boyfriend. Movies on TV this week: 'The Phantom of the Opera' on TCM 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z “And we worked on the rumrunners’ boats, too,” he adds with a laugh. Rising tide of Seattle growth swamps century-old Jensen Motor Boat Co. 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z But as the lone branch of the military that serves as a law-enforcement agency, the 227-year-old service has also long been in the business of interdicting contraband, from Chinese opium smugglers to Prohibition rumrunners. The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating Guantánamos’ 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The Coast Guard was unable to stop them because the rumrunners got good at concealing their operations using coded radio messages. This Woman Saved the Americas From the Nazis 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Before Rupolo, several reputed mobsters and gamblers and at least one rumrunner disappeared from New York and were believed to have been encased in or weighed down with concrete. Body tied to cinder block washes ashore in Brooklyn 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Before Mr. Rupolo, several reputed mobsters and gamblers and at least one rumrunner disappeared from New York and were believed to have been encased in or weighed down with concrete. Body Tied to Cinder Block Washes Ashore in Brooklyn 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Williams’ narrative offers a tropical milieu of rumrunners, skulduggery, concealed identity, dangerous complications for Virginia and her toddler daughter Evelyn — and lots of entertainment for readers. 9 sunny new novels for beach reading 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z There have been rum wars involving pirates and slave traders, and rumrunners who made a mockery of Prohibition. A Rum Battle, a Tax Hangover 2010-10-16T01:10:00Z |
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