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THE FLOOD IN AMERICA
NEW YOBK, April 12. Reports from the newly-" wet" •States indicate that the beer flood carried w.ith it the largest expenditure of cash sinco the 1929 stock crash. Brewers are worried because thero is not enough barley in America to meet malting demands. The existence of thousands of "speak-easies" is threatened. • The first rush taxed supplies so sharply that five cents a glass became a myth today and 10 cents (sd) for an $oz glass was the most common change*
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 93, 21 April 1933, Page 7
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