The U.S. is running out of liquor slowly but surely. The nation is drinking itself dry.
In Manhattan many liquor retailers reversed one of the most ancient rules of business: a customer who wanted to buy a case-lot had to pay more per bottle than the single-bottle price. In California police cars careened through the streets of Oakland and Berkeley in the best Volstead manner, chasing gangsters who had hijacked hooch ; in dry Charlotte, N.C. bell hops and hack drivers bootlegged moonshine from nearby wet counties. And in Washington OPA huffpuffed.
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