Half the U. S. people could buy legal liquor last week, and most of them found the prices painfully steep.
¶ Declaring that distillers were gouging the public, Representative John Joseph Cochran of St. Louis, where Cozy Corner used to sell for 98¢ a quart, indignantly announced: "Seven dollars a quart for whiskey, no matter how old, is outrageous! Chemists of the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol advise me that the best whiskey available today did not cost more than 50¢ a gallon to make." He advised a drinkers' strike.
¶ Liquor must...
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