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Prohibition agents at Atlanta, May 24, 1931, Georgia intercepted a carload shipment of liquor billed from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Chicago, as vegetables. Poking behind a few crates of string beans and potatoes just inside the doors of the car, the prohibition men found crates of pint bottles of whiskey, several thousand in number, piled five deep in the freight car. Three squads of convicts are shown in the photo breaking up the bottles with sledge-hammers. Officers valued the card at $50,000. A telegram from Fort Lauderdale
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Minimum price 50PLN
1931-05-24
ASSOCIATED PRESS/East News
Associated Press
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