Wartime price and priority controls have already brought back an old U.S. institution: bootlegging. Patriotism alone will not suffice to enforce the new overall price ceiling announced by OPA this ...

The hard coal region was experiencing hard times during the Great Depression. “Pennsylvania’s vast anthracite industry, vital to the state’s prosperity, lies perilously ill,” the Philadelphia Inquirer ...

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The judge was hopping mad in the Charles Dale bootlegging trial, but not at the defendant. He was furious with the jury when he discovered that some of the evidence – four bottles of liquor – had gone ...

"And not many people know this, but it was also not illegal to be drunk in most cases — it was just illegal to have alcohol in your possession," she said. Exemptions aside, the Prohibition era saw a ...

Spokane had achieved its goal of becoming a major “financial center,” but not of the kind to brag about. Spokane was the “main market and financial center of a liquor-smuggling and bootlegging traffic ...

Another chapter in the Bethel cab drivers bootlegging scandal ended this week. On Tuesday, Quyana Cab pled guilty to selling alcohol without a license and agreed to pay a fine of $25,000. Back in 2015 ...