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Grape Growing During Prohibition

When prohibition was announced it had a marked effect on American grape growers. Doom and gloom pervaded the grape growing industry as growers reflected on the negative effect this would have on their incomes. Grape growers considered all their options and the general view was that the industry was finished and new sources of income [...]

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The state of World Prohibition in 1923

PROHIBITION of alcohol is as far advanced today for the entire world as it was a quarter of a century ago in the United States. Stating the matter in terms of millions of square miles and millions of human beings, there is a dramatic exactness in the comparison between the conditions then and now. It [...]

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