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After the ban was lifted and short selling slowly resumed, spreads fell back to about 65% above preprohibition levels the third week of October.
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The institution with the preprohibition collection is the University at Buffalo, not Buffalo University.
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Miss Hughes contends that Joseph P. Kennedy's gangster ties run considerably deeper than the "he was a bootlegger" tag foisted upon him by the press in reference to his highly successful scotch whisky import business preprohibition.
American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995
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