Finally, bootleggers took to bottling their own concoctions of spurious liquor, and by the late 1920s stills making liquor from corn (moonshine) had become major suppliers. Bootlegging helped lead to the establishment of American organized crime, which persisted long after the repeal of ...
I first met Zeke Virant when I was living in the East Village after my first year of college. Virant was living nearby with a model who liked to cook biscuits and gravy. He would frequently pop over to my tiny sixth-floor walk up. We’d cram into the little bedroom I shared with a...
But sales of food, clothing and “sundries” was not the only function of the Company Store; it also played a major role in the financial operations of the company. “Twelve hours per day is the average time of work the year round, except on Saturday, when it is only nine hours,” ...
On September 11, 1933, famous physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, with confidence, “Anyone who expects a source of power in the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.” However, on September 12, 1933, physicist Leo Szilard invented the neutroninduced(中子诱导) nuclear chain ...
2014 was a bad year for all of that. I guess I should have added an item for that. Bitcoin is hanging on but transaction activity is flat. All the alt stuff has turned out to be a waste of time and money. It reminds me of the Internet in 2001 and 2002. A total wasteland. A ...