Books: Racketeering Revelations

ONLY SAPS WORK—Courtenay Terrett —Vanguard ($2).

Says Author Terrett, $1,000,000,000 "is a genuinely conservative estimate of the toll the rackets take from the purse of the American nation every year." Only Saps Work is his survey of U. S. racketeering, with particular consideration of New York. He found that Chicago's rackets get more publicity, New York's function more smoothly. "So adroitly are the rackets administered in the laundry and dry-cleaning industries, and the green vegetables, fruit, fish and ice trades that they are invisible to the naked eye."

Author Terrett makes the following...

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