Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rum ships hovering outside American territorial waters are confirmed in their immunity from molestation...
...years; so its sugarcane industry is practically ruined. The drought, which has also affected most of the Greater Antilles, is so great that there is not even enough water on the islands for cattle, and the cattle industry is vanishing. Prohibition spoiled the remaining occupations of the Virgins-the rum trade and the resupplying of ships. Rival West Indian ports are making the most of the fact that St. Thomas is dry to attract ships to their ports for refueling. So whereas once 90 ships called every month at St. Thomas, it is a rare month now when 25 vessels...
From Washington the Government announces that 33 Federal prohibition agents have been killed since prohibition was enacted. Said Commissioner Haynes: " When an officer of the law is killed by a moonshiner, bootlegger or rum runner the verdict should be such as to strike chaos to the heart of the slayer...
...rum fleet is, of course, legally free from molestation on the high seas, but the motorboats which bring the liquor cargoes ashore from vessels three miles out are subject to interruption. The present prohibition fleet is inadequate to cope with the numbers and speed of the motorboats which bring liquor in across the last three miles of open water. It is to intercept these craft that the former submarine chasers would be used...
...Rum preparedness as practiced by Commissioner Haynes...