FEDERAL AGENTS FLATTEN 600 STILLS IN PHILLY
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (JFK+50) On July 26, 1922, Federal prohibition agents loaded 600 stills* on 10 trucks and drove them to West Philadelphia where they were "flattened" using "steam roller methods."
The action, taken in the process of the enforcement of the Volstead Act**, netted the government more than $1500.
The stills, plain and copper, had been in storage in the Federal Building and were flattened to "make space for additional seizures."
*Stills are devices used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to a boil then cooling to condense the vapor.
**Volstead Act (1919-1933) implemented the Prohibition Amendment by defining the process & procedures for banning alcoholic beverages, along with their production & distribution.
SOURCE
"Steam Roller Is Used To Flatten 600 Stills," Newspaper of The New York Tribune, July 27, 1922, www.gastearsivi.com/
"It seems how lately, babe, Got a bad case of steamroller blues"
from "Steamroller Blues" by James Taylor (1970)
