1. Under the old regime black marketeers would buy almost anything from Western tourists and resell it at an enormous profit.

2. Prices started to rise. Black marketeers and moneylenders mushroomed.

3. It appeared to be targeted particularly at black marketeers and speculators hoarding goods to create artificial shortages.

4. For Kurzlinger, until then just a Berlin black marketeer and gangster, it became a profession.

5. Black marketeers and moneylenders mushroomed. In the hinterland, the peasants' meagre savings evaporated rapidly.

6. We're keeping an eye on gangsters, black marketeers and revolutionaries.

7. This reflected the view of other deputies who foresaw property-owning black marketeers controlling the economy.

8. Pavlov's allegations contradicted earlier official statements which portrayed the currency confiscation as an attack on black marketeers and excess money supply.

9. Ustinov won best supporting actor Oscars for the role of Batiatus, owner of the gladiator5 school in Spartacus (1960), and as Arthur Simpson, an English smalltime6 black marketeer in Topkapi (1965).