Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were banned by constitutional and federal law. It did not completely prohibit drinking or private possession itself.
Molasses, a sticky sugar byproduct, refines into industrial alcohol and even explosives feedstock. World War I demand piled it into downtown Boston tanks. The day right after the 1919 flood, Prohibition was ratified — some say the distillery rushed to draw off rum alcohol first.
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