Dark Tide by Stephen Puleo

Author:Stephen Puleo [Puleo, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8070-9667-3
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2004-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

Thursday, January 16, 1919, 8 p.m.

While clean-up and recovery efforts were continuing, church bells throughout Boston pealed in celebration. Nebraska had just become the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Prohibition amendment, providing the three-fourths total necessary to amend the U.S. Constitution; after a one-year grace period, the actual law banning alcohol in the United States would go into effect on January 17, 1920.

It no longer mattered to U.S. Industrial Alcohol. Its 2.3 million gallons of molasses covered Commercial Street and filled the basements of homes and businesses in the area. Its attempt to convert its molasses distillation process from industrial alcohol for munitions to grain alcohol for rum—its attempt, in effect, to outrun the oncoming Prohibition amendment—had ended in disaster.

USIA’s days in Boston were numbered.

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