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US: Prohibition Particulars, 1920-1933
World Features Syndicate
Friday 02 Oct 1998
US: Prohibition Particulars, 1920-1933 st2264.htm
Subj: US: Prohibition Particulars, 1920-1933
Source: Santa Maria Times (CA)
Pubdate: Friday, Oct. 2, 1998
PROHIBITION PARTICULARS, 1920-1933
1. M.D.'s - Made $520 million prescribing whiskey
2. New York - Had 32,000 speakeasies
3. Deaths from bad liquor - 11,700 in 1927
4. Bible - Edited to delete all drink references
5. Agents fired for larceny - 760
6. First agent indicted - Ten days after prohibition
began
7. Liquor in government warehouses - Fifty gallons to
start*
* By the end of prohibition they house 30 million gallons
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