How did this molasses relate to the ratification of the amendment outlawing liquor in the U.S.? A report on prohibition may also be found on the same page from 1919.
Wikipedia had this event in their "This Day in History" column. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster) Molasses was also used as a key ingredient in munitions at the time. Accounts sound VERY much like the coal ash disaster in Tennessee indeed.
Wikipedia had this event in their "This Day in History" column. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster)
ReplyDeleteMolasses was also used as a key ingredient in munitions at the time.
Accounts sound VERY much like the coal ash disaster in Tennessee indeed.