Ivy don't forget about the Uboats and Japan taking over China and southeast Asia. The other families did have connections, but had to go through Detroit when access was scares. Lucchese and Dragna families had some balls since they stole from military bases. You really have admire that move, since it would have cost a bullet by the sentry.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green