U.S. statisticians tidied up their books for 1945, produced an adding-machine report on the state of the nation.
In twelve months, U.S. citizens tossed off 190,000,000 gallons of whiskey, gin, brandy, rum and cordials, tying 1942's national, post-repeal record for drinking. They had trouble at homein Reno a record 8,590 divorce suits were filed; in Hamilton County, Tenn., there were five times more marital split-ups than marriages; all across the nation the divorce rate boomed to new levels.
The U.S. also had more crimein Chicago, barometer of the national mood for larceny and gunplay, the law was broken on 38,533 occasions,...
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