INDIANA JAYNE: I forgot to mention...

Posted by Goodsport from adsl-216-102-199-185.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net on July 19, 2000 at 13:36:30:

    ... in Chapter 14, Tessa was told of Muppet: "To make things worse, Nobody's also his stiff competitor in the liquor market."

    Perhaps by 1939 the two are still vying in the liquor market, but it wouldn't be as tough a fight as before. In Chapter 5, Mountie Brett Lambert found out that the two were fighting in the liquor market back in 1930 and 1931, which was a far more dangerous *and profitable) time to be fighting over liquor. Why? Because the Volstead Act (i.e. the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution) was enacted in either 1917 or 1919 (I can't remember which) which prohibited the sale and/or the consupmtion of alchohol in the United States. The act was finally repealed (i.e. taken away) in 1933, so in 1939 anyone over the age of 21 could legally drink alcohol. So by 1939, there's probably not much to fight over as far as the liquor market is concerned.

    Just thought I'd let you know. :)

-G

Follow Ups:

• Correction... Goodsport 13:50:49 7/19/2000 (1)
  • It's okay. Thanks! NM Indiana Jayne 06:11:54 7/22/2000 (0)
• Oops, that should have been... Goodsport 13:37:50 7/19/2000 (0)

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