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Bootleggers Failure

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Despite of the failure to meet the economic expectations, the bootlegging led by the Prohibition was also a heavy consequence. As the prohibition ended the legal sale of liquor, it created the demand for an illegal supply. The earliest bootleggers began smuggling foreign-made alcohol into the United States from across the Canadian and Mexican borders along the seacoasts from ships under foreign registry. When the U.S. Coast Guard started halting and searching ships at greater distances from the coast and using fast motor launches of its own, this type of smuggling became more risky and expensive . However, the bootleggers did have other resources such as “medicinal” whiskey that was sold across drugstore counters and the “washed” denatured

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