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...strictly criminal, gun-toting aspects of 'the new "creeping Prohibition" are minor phases of the drought. The main area is in violations of OPA regulations...
Bootleggers, highjackers and just plain thirsty visitors from the drought areas finally dried up the wet areas too. Minneapolis and St. Paul ran out of whiskey because bootleggers bought up the local supply and smuggled it to Seattle, where parched citizens gladly paid up to $8 a pint. In Washington, D.C., organized '"booze-buyer" gangs stripped store shelves of liquor for resale in Virginia and Maryland. Legal whiskey outlets ran out of stock in the states bordering Prohibitionist Mississippi (where OPA officials are "utterly powerless" because "theoretically there is no whiskey in Mississippi"). Even liquorish Manhattan scraped the bottom...
...Bootlegging is back. North Carolina liquor-law violations during the past three months were above the entire preceding year. Arkansas "revenooers" are warring on farmers who bought sugar for canning, have turned to making moonshine since drought-burned crops failed...
...Weather in many parts of the U.S. fluctuates in a 23-year pattern; periods of maximum rainfall and drought occur at about that interval. By studying cycles, a scientist was able to forecast accurately in 1939 some of 1942's big floods...
...Discouraged Oklahoma farmers, struck by floods last spring and drought this summer, were: 1) registering for jobs with the Oklahoma City U.S. Employment Service office at the rate of 35 a day, 2) packing their belongings in jalopies and heading for the West Coast. Some 1,000 Arkansas farmers, under a labor-exchange agreement, crowded special trains bound for the North Dakota wheat harvest...