Prohibition - Thirteen Years That Changed America by Edward Behr

Author:Edward Behr
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781435146815
Publisher: Sterling
Published: 2013-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

The bootleggers, she said, “decorated them with pretty girls in bathing suits, like going out for a little sail. Load up and come back. . . . The interiors were done in rosewood, gold handles on the toilets and all that jazz, great oil paintings in the salons. They’re now jammed up with loads and loads of wet alcohol... the interiors of them were gutted and ruined.”

There were still easier ways of circumventing Prohibition. Just as Remus legitimately obtained B Certificates (permits) to withdraw liquor from distilleries for medicinal purposes, American distillers could, just as legitimately, export their own liquor in bulk for so-called “medicinal use” abroad. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of whiskey thus purchased, on paper at least, by businessmen in Scotland, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Germany, Cuba, and even Tijuana never reached their fictitious destinations.

If we believed the tales of all who apply for liquor permits [wrote Haynes], we would naturally come to the absurd conclusion that the whole world is sick and desperately in need of distilled spirits. . . . Does anyone believe that Scotland, home of whiskey, is really in need of 66,000 gallons of American whiskey for non-beverage purposes? ... It is the irony of ironies, a wet world, come to dry America to beg for liquor.

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