| February 14, 1929... |
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| the year of the black bottle,
six-day bicycle races... |
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| flagpole sitting, and the first flight
from Paris to New York. |
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| Mickey Mouse makes his screen debut... |
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| and Herbert Hoover is inaugurated
as the 31 st president with the words... |
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| "We in America today are nearer
to the final triumph over poverty... |
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| than ever before in any land." |
00:01:01.745 - 00:01:04.022 |
| Six months later, the New York
stock market will crash... |
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| and bring about the greatest
depression in world history. |
00:01:07.292 - 00:01:10.654 |
| In the city of Chicago,
the time is 10:25 a.m. |
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| The temperature... 18 above zero. |
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| Oh, my God. |
00:02:24.995 - 00:02:27.564 |
| My God! |
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| In the years following the passage... |
00:03:48.203 - 00:03:50.689 |
| of the National
Prohibition Act of 1920... |
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| the nation's underworld rises to power
and battles amongst itself... |
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| just as modern nations
and corporations do. |
00:03:57.087 - 00:03:59.865 |
| Open periods of gang warfare are
followed by peace treaties... |
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| and attempts at consolidation
and monopoly... |
00:04:03.302 - 00:04:05.537 |
| each of which is shattered
as new warfare erupts... |
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| in quest of the booming
bootlegging and vice profits. |
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