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In effect one year after its ratification, the 18th Amendment reads in part, "… The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors… is hereby prohibited..." Prior to this time, many farmers operated small corn-alcohol stills on their farms to produce enough lamp and heating fuel for their own use. Despite the fact that ethanol, considered a liquor, was legal if it was mixed with petroleum fuel, Prohibition police tasked with obliterating illegal moonshine production destroyed many of these fuel-production stills in the process. |
