In the shadows of New York City, a lucrative industry has flourished since the dawn of national prohibition in 1920. The manufacture of patent medicines, hair tonics, and perfumes, once overlooked in the fight against bootlegged whiskey, has grown into a behemoth that consumes nearly 10 million gallons of grain alcohol annually. This is a staggering increase of more than one hundred percent over pre-war days, when the industry barely scratched the surface of this market.
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Key Facts
- State: National
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Era: Historical
- Source: Library of Congress — Chronicling America ↗
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