Quote Originally Posted by Riverkilt View Post
. . . Much to be said for booze in economic terms.

Ron
That and its creation of gangsterism are, I think, the main reasons the electorate gave up on Prohibition.

Two examples of the sort of culture in which I was raised:
1) My father bragged for the rest of his life that he was the first to score a legal case of Dewar's Ne Plus Ultra after Repeal.
2} I was 12 years old when I first discovered that "the Noble Experiment" was not the process by which one learned to make bathtub gin.

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