2016[03]Q -- Ins-Net Qs for Jan 15, 2016: "The Great Molasses Flood!"

Insomniac-Net Questions -- Friday[03], Jan 15, 2016
Tonight's Topic: "The Great Molasses Flood!"
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    Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a 50-foot-tall (90 feet in diameter) steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston’s North End waterfront, disgorging its contents in a 15-foot-high by 160-foot-wide wave of molasses that traveled at 35 miles per hour over 3/4 of a mile.
    The ensuing flood killed 21 people, injured 150, destroyed scores of horses, and left a trail of property damage and destruction in Boston’s most heavily traveled commercial areas (the tank was located on Commercial Street, near the waterfront).
    Owned by US Industrial Alcohol (USIA), the huge tank was used to transfer West Indian molasses from ocean steamers, store as needed, and then load into railroad tank cars which delivered it to the company's nearby alcohol distilling plant. 
    So, accordingly, how much do you know about the "Great Boston Molasses Flood of January 15, 1919"?
    For tonight's True-or-False ("TorF") questions, please give us your best answers for each of the following 3 TRUE or FALSE questions, by using the (reuseable) answers of "A"=TRUE or "B"=FALSE.
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++ "The Great Molasses Flood!" ++
Question #1: With WWI over, USIA still continued to distill a small portion of the molasses into "industrial alcohol" -- which could be used to make munitions and dynamite; however, over 80% of it was distilled into grain alcohol for rum  -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.

Question #2: Ironically, the following evening after the disaster, Nebraska became the 36th state to approve the Prohibition amendment -- which would go into effect one year later -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.
Question #3: One of the Boston's Duck Tours converted WWII amphibious vehicles used for sight-seeing tours is named "Molasses Molly" -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.

[SOURCE: TBA]
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    ++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++

"I looked up, and I couldn't believe my eyes, there was a huge wave... a huge wave of... a brown wave... coming down toward me... and it was big... and I don't know how high it was... must, God, it must have been 8 to 10 feet, something like that... just roaring down the street right at me... so I turned around and I ran as fast as I could toward the cemetery down there and I remember standing there in the cemetery and hanging on to a tombstone...."
[Source: John "Cappy" Sullivan (4 years-old survivor)]
[YT-Video Link: The Sweetest Thing In the Wake of the Amber Tide]

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