the consumption of alcohol was illegal
shortly after this it became legalized again and it was passed on
These books are called Period pieces
After fighting the war in Korea, the US had learned that communism would spread. In order to keep with their policy of containment, they had to rush in and stop Viet Cong from spreading communism (much like the domino theory that the US had). Had Viet Cong not wanted to bring about communism, there would be no need for invasion, and the domino theory would have yet to be proven.
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The progress of the manufacturing industries in Texas has been that of the emblematic borderline region with its colonial economy in a slow shift from pastoral toward established economic status. The Texas region has had the superiority of rich and assorted natural resources. The geographic position inspiring the growth of population, and the expanding of transportation facilities. Consumption of these properties has come, primarily, by exporting of raw materials but progressively by manufacture in Texas into consumer’s products and semi-processed, as rail lines have been placing and deep-water ports dug, while the tide of American migration moved westward. Before the 1900 Texas manufacturing industries were of either the type that had inevitably come to the source of raw materials, such as brick manufacturing, stone cutting, lumbering, or the type that produce for the instant requests of a local market, as the milling of cornmeal and flour and the manufacture of saddlery and harness. Some industries were industrialized around the Spanish undertakings at San Antonio.
