Interesting And Amazing Event-4

**-- The Government Approved Alcohol Poisoning That Killed 10,000 People-- In the mid- 1920s, in Chicago, prohibition was in full swing. Unfortunately, so was the business of bottlelegging. The goverment could not keep up with the number of spealesies that were popping up and were having a hard time tracking down each and every member of the bottlelegging empire. It seemed for the prohibitionists, there was no way to control the masses. Then in 1926, the government got an idea and turned the tables on alcoholic public. Using the very thing they were attempting to prohibit. the government hoped they would end alcohol consumption once for all. Because grain alcohol and liquor were hard to obtain, people began turning to more easily accessible alcohol- such as those found in paint thinner and wood polish.This 'industrial alcohol' was essentially grain alcoholwith chemical added to it, through a process called "denaturing" that rendered it undrinkable. Denaturing was started in 1900 as a way for manufacturers to avoid taxes that were levied on drnkable spirits. In order to make it drinkable again, bottleleggers used mechanisms that filtered the chemicals out, in a process called "renaturing". Knowing how the bottleleggers renatured their alcohol, they bagan adding chemicals in paint thinners and wood polishes that could not be filtered out. such as methyl alcohol or methanol- today a common ingredient in antifreeze. Unbeknownist to bottleleggers, the chemicals rendered renaturing process entirely useless, and effectively turned the alcohol into poison. By 1933, 10,000 people had died from drinking it. and those who do not, suffered hallucination, blindness and excessive vomiting. The government simply told thet should not have been drinking the bottlelegged alcohol at the first place.