Chapter 2902 Water and Dreams (5)

On December 5, 1933, sailors at Port St. Pierre in Trinidad lowered the flags of the United States and France at half-mast to mourn the burial of Prohibition.

In the 14 years from its promulgation in 1920 to its abolition in 1933, the whole world knew how "thirsty" Americans were. The first was neighboring Canada. Although the Canadian federal parliament legislated in 1918 prohibited the inter-provincial transportation of alcoholic goods, the only

The exception was medical use, and millions of gallons of booze were delivered to American speakeasies.

There were struggles before Prohibition, when Prohibitionists banned the brewing of beer on the grounds of wasting food and being at war. At that time, many American men went to Europe to fight in World War I, because the local infrastructure was damaged.

When the damage was severe, the French were unable to provide clean drinking water to their allies, and the soldiers had to drink wine to replenish water.

Even though the beer companies tried to refute outside attacks with statistics, claiming that the entire beer industry consumed less than 0.75% of the total U.S. grain production, the opposition still accused them of occupying railroads and squeezing the supply of fuel and other war necessities.

What's more, many American beer companies are owned by Germans, so the American people think that closing some spirits plants and breweries is not a big deal at all.

When Canadians used oxen to pull sleds and men and women to pull small sleds to transport wine over the mountains and ridges to the United States, the French also transported wine to the United States for sale. According to the law at the time, as long as the ship did not dock, it was 3 miles away from the coastline.

In addition, the U.S. Navy has no right to drive them away. Then the people along the coast drove a "fleet" consisting of countless small sailboats, single-person rowing boats, inflatable lifeboats, and grasshopper boats with paddles to come forward to connect them. Sometimes there were even a few

A seaplane.

This results in people in Canada and the coastal areas being less "thirsty" than in the Midwest, where they can drink not just an occasional glass, but a whole bottle.

Then rabbis and Catholic priests wanted to allow their congregants to drink communion wine. In fact, the United States also had its own vineyards. However, according to the provisions of Article 29 of the Wardstead Act, the alcohol in "juice"

The content cannot exceed 0.5%. For example, apple juice is prone to fermentation during storage, but it is not included in this restriction because a South Dakota congressman is one of the authors of the bill. He hopes that his hometown can also provide strong cider.

The "Wardstead Act" deliberately uses "intoxicants" instead of "alcoholic beverages". For example, the alcohol content of sauerkraut is 0.8%, and the alcohol content of some chocolate cakes is 0.62%. Obviously no one will eat sauerkraut.

Eat until you get drunk.

With the exceptions, the bill became less absolute, which led to a 14-year-long flood of misdemeanor cases in federal courts.

These criminals were different from Capone in that they simply stored fruits in their own homes, "accidentally" fermented them into wine, and then sold some to their neighbors and friends.

In the 1939 "Fruit from the Poisonous Tree" case, the police monitored the phone calls and learned that Nadorn's illegal business was selling bootleg liquor.

In fact, before Congress passed Prohibition, states like Kansas had already enacted Prohibition, but it was not passed entirely because of women's protests.

Congress passed the War Tax Act and increased alcohol taxes to raise funds for the United States to participate in the war. At the same time, after the start of Roosevelt's New Deal, the National Industrial Recovery Act was passed. Section 217 of this law stipulated that if the Prohibition Amendment was passed or the fiscal revenue and expenditure was passed,

To achieve balance, whichever is achieved first, the federal conquest will immediately cancel the dividend tax and excess profits tax imposed due to the state of emergency.

In other words, every state has to face a situation, whether to make money or lose money by abolishing Prohibition. In places like Tennessee, Prohibition was still implemented in the state in 1939. Winery workers could make wine locally and sell it elsewhere, but they could not make wine locally.

When buying alcohol, you pay a 10% tax unless the alcohol is "illegally sold".

In addition, unrestrained drinking was allowed on transoceanic cruise ships. This period gave rise to many American ports and luxury vacation routes in the Caribbean, and also made business boom in Port Pierre, Trinidad.

But the "most interesting" ones were underground bars, nightclubs and the like. There was a song at the time that said, "The girls who go to underground bars to drink are the most beautiful." Especially in New York, there were prohibition agents looking for bootlegging everywhere.

As a member of the public, compared to secretly drinking from your husband and father, going to a speakeasy to drink requires a certain amount of courage.

At first, the bar was only open to men, but bar owners soon discovered that bars with female customers would do better business than other bars. In order to attract female customers and allow them to attract more male customers, the bar made some modifications.

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The first is the high stool next to the bar. It cannot allow ladies to sit on it gracefully, nor can it allow them to put their feet up on the copper step pole. So the bar was transformed into a restaurant, and even had table service.

People drank more when they could sit and chat, and new entertainment programs, jazz, sad songstresses, and the Charleston dance were also born with the advent of the era of shared drinking between men and women.

Some bars will hang an eye-catching sign at the entrance - "The most beautiful girls in the world go in here and get drunk." Of course, if someone believes it, they will find that all the people drinking inside are male customers.

Waiting eagerly for the "most beautiful girl" to walk in.

A female employee who abides by the law during the day turns into a different person after get off work, just like Batman and Superman, both have another identity.

It is said that alcohol is banned, but it cannot ban all things containing alcohol, such as perfume and aftershave. The police sometimes light a match to check, and the liquid in the bottle labeled "perfume" and "aftershave" is

A flame was lit.

At that time, a new literary and artistic work was popular: "She slowly drank the 'yoghurt' in the bottle and calmly experienced its deliciousness and efficacy. After drinking the second cup, a completely liberated new woman was born. She walked to the table

Opposite, tenderly stroking the handsome and strong suitor's bow tie."

At that time, drinking and driving was not a bad word, and some people even had the heroine in the novel say blatantly, "I hate reformers, especially those who want to reform me."

Most bars have a serious shortage of high-end liquor. After all, it is different from secretly drinking at home in the countryside. Who would invite a pretty girl to drink that home-brewed distilled liquor? The intensifying contradiction between supply and demand has led to the rampant use of counterfeit liquor, and some people even use industrial alcohol

After being blended and sold, in order to pretend that the wine was smuggled from the sea, the bottles would be deliberately soaked in seawater for a period of time.

Without the Joker's reminder, some people might not have thought of putting on Batman's mask and driving a modified car to "race" with the Gotham police. Now some people know that it doesn't matter if the bat light is on or not, as long as you are fast enough,

Just get caught by the police.

At this time, Batman may descend from the sky and help the police catch these people pretending to be him.

"What's the difference between us?" the fake Batman might ask.

Batman got into his Batmobile and said in a hoarse voice, "This is not a car."

Then he drove away in that conspicuous "car".

Bruce Wayne's family business is involved in the military industry. The Batmobile is actually a military prototype called the "Tumbler", which is used to carry personnel and equipment across trenches. The Batsuit is not Superman's one-piece sweatshirt and is bulletproof.

Function.

But its cost was too expensive and it was impossible to be used in the army. It was originally idle in a warehouse, but Bruce Wayne took a fancy to it and later became his "chariot."

In court, sometimes the defendant will hire a team of excellent lawyers to find loopholes in the law to exonerate the funder.

At this time, if there is a smart, upright, and powerful prosecutor standing on the prosecution's side, maybe the defendant will be brought to justice and justice will be achieved.

In the 13th century, there was a "doctor" from Oxford University. When he was first selected for a doctorate, he was not selected because there were too many people who wanted to be a doctor. Later, he was judged as a "heretic" and never returned to the doctorate for the rest of his life.

Become a doctor.

He was a figure in the post-scholastic philosophy period. At that time, he mainly studied logic. He also defined "human" and "animal".

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them talks about "beast". "Animal" refers to all animals, including birds and insects. "Beast" specifically refers to four-legged animals. However, Scamander's book also records the ball escape bird.

and other non-tetrapods.

This was inconsistent with the title of the book. When Hogwarts wanted to include his book as a textbook, he went to the Ministry of Magic to attend a hearing to explain why the title was chosen. Then Scamander translated the article.

Out.

It was a long article covering Latin grammar and denotation.

'Animal'praedicatur de homine, meaning "animal predicates a person", in this Latin sentence homine does not refer to the word "homine", because animal does not predicate "homine", in this sentence "homine" refers to

The word "homo" is the word "homo" that predicates "animal" in "homo est animal".

Also in "homo praedicatur de amino in ohliquo", meaning "one predicates 'fool' in the indirect case", in this Latin sentence, the word "homo" refers to "hominis", because in "asinus est hominis"

, in the proposition that fools are human beings, it is not the word "homo", but the word "hominis"...

Then the Ministry of Magic stopped asking Scamander to change his name, so Hogwarts had the "fantasy beast".

"So... you don't remember what happened yesterday when you were drunk?" Minerva said as she applied gold nail polish to Pomona.

"Maybe I remember a little bit," Pomona said, holding back her headache.

"Remember what?" Minerva asked, staring at her.

"I...may have gone to the Daily Prophet." Pomona said guiltily.

"Then what?" Minerva continued.

She really didn't want to recall it, but some fragments still came to mind.

"Have you done something bad?" Minerva asked seriously.

"A little bit," Pomona said self-deprecatingly.

"What did you do?" Minerva asked.

She was silent for a while, making sure that Minerva couldn't take out the wand with the nail polish in her hand before speaking.

"I went to Rita Kister," Pomona said.

"Then what."

"I 'chatted' with her for a little while," Pomona said.

"What did we talk about?" Minerva continued to ask.

Pomona hesitated.

"We talked about how if Rita Kist fabricated stories out of thin air again and touched her students, she would chop them up and feed them to pigs." After Severus walked into the staff lounge, he glanced at Pomona's nails.

"very nice."

Minerva didn't say "thank you", but looked at Pomona in surprise.

"You said that to her?" said Minerva.

"It was loud and clear, half the newsroom heard it," Severus said coldly, and then walked away.

"Yes." Pomona said helplessly.

"Merlin." Minerva exclaimed, "How could you do this?"

"I'm drunk," Pomona said apologetically.
To be continued...