PROHIBITION PARTICULARS, 1920-1933

1. M.D.'s - Made $520 million prescribing whiskey

2. New York - Had 32,000 speakeasies

3. Deaths from bad liquor - 11,700 in 1927

4. Bible - Edited to delete all drink references

5. Agents fired for larceny - 760

6. First agent indicted - Ten days after prohibition
began

7. Liquor in government warehouses - Fifty gallons to
start*

* By the end of prohibition they house 30 million gallons

Source: World Features Syndicate

Checked-by: Pat Dolan