Coast Guard Enforcing Prohibition on Rum Runners, 1929. Prohibition in the USA: sailors firing gun at bootleggers' boat with illegal alcohol. 'It wasn't just a question of sneaking past the customs with the odd bottle, but getting through with a whole shipload. From the five-mile limit in, you were on your own. But there you are - where there's a demand there always has to be a supply. The coast guard held different views, however, and expressed them with force'. From "Time to Remember - 1929 The Time Of The House At Bognor" - Reel 3; a documentary about the world in 1929. Illness o
Coast Guard Enforcing Prohibition on Rum Runners, 1929. Prohibition in the USA: sailors firing gun at bootleggers' boat with illegal alcohol. 'It wasn't just a question of sneaking past the customs with the odd bottle, but getting through with a whole shipload. From the five-mile limit in, you were on your own. But there you are - where there's a demand there always has to be a supply. The coast guard held different views, however, and expressed them with force'. From "Time to Remember - 1929 The Time Of The House At Bognor" - Reel 3; a documentary about the world in 1929. Illness of King George V & economic depression.
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