another gang stole four casks of grain alcohol from a government bonded warehouse, and still another hijacked a truck carrying whiskey. Americans were about to discover that making Prohibition the ...

With Prohibition in place, but ineffectively enforced, one observer noted, America had hardly freed itself from the scourge of alcohol abuse – instead, the "drys" had their law, while the "wets ...

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...