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2024-06-14 00:53:18 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 896D323DAE4B0A4E8602432BBA4DB700B517AA69C89E5085F3CF5ACDA3B85C55
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Prohibition ended the legal sale of liquor and thereby created demand for an illicit supply. The earliest bootleggers began smuggling foreign-made commercial liquor into the United States from across the Canadian and Mexican borders https://www.britannica.com/topic/bootlegging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum-running_in_Windsor,_Ontario https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-rise-of-organized-crime/rum-running/ https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequences https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/moose-jaw-s-urban-legend https://www.barleymagazine.com/blog/bootleggers-of-canada https://manotickmessenger.ca/2021/11/02/when-al-capone-ruled-manotick/ https://www.thenewshouse.com/borderlines/river-rats-helped-keep-americans-buzzed-during-prohibition-with-daring-runs-across-the-saint-lawrence/
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