AMERICAN ITEMS
BOOTLEGGING IN U.S.A
IfUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
NEW YORK. Fob. 10.
’ The biggest conspiracy in the history of the prohibition movement was uncovered by prohibition agents. According to a Chicago newspaper more than one hundred and fifty persons were involved in a syndicate operating all over the country, which flooded the United States with spurious liquor, and the most astounding of all the Federal Government supplied every drop of this liquor. ' Agents traced four million gallons of industrial alcohol was diverted into the bootleg trade. The basis of operations was the discovery, by a former Bulgarian chemist of the formula for extracting essential oils from hair tonics for perfumery and kindred products: Ibis chemist’s sudden rise to wealth provided the key to the solution of the mystery, why so many new perfume companies wore being established.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1930, Page 6
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139AMERICAN ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1930, Page 6
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