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America, Minus A Human Factor
Did you know that whiskey that went for 23 cents a gallon just before the Civil War was fetching 70 dollars, wholesale in Richmond by April 1864? Is that a comment on Confederate dollars? Or how much you'd want to drink with the Union Army heading your way? How much do we drink, anyway? From 1900 to...-
By Joel Garreau