A warning about home-front crime dramatizes the many ways racketeers exploit wartime shortages, regulations and grief. Episodes cover scalped train tickets, black-market food and gasoline, counterfeit ration coupons, fraudulent allotment marriages and impostors who demand money from families of servicemen. The broadcast argues that these schemes survive because ordinary citizens cooperate with them and urges the public to report fraud, obey rationing rules and deny criminals the customers they need.
This Words at War broadcast aired on May 22, 1945. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Luis Van Rooten and Jackson Beck. Other credited names include Garnet Garrison as director and Jack Wilson as radio adaptor.
The surviving recording runs about 30 minutes.
This version dramatizes Wartime Racketeers. Friedrich Hayek is credited as author and Jack Wilson adapted it for radio.
NBC wartime anthology dramatizing contemporary books about World War II, produced with Council on Books in Wartime/war-information context.
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