bootleggers were people who illegally sold alcohol.
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People used many techniques to circumvent National Prohibition. They made their own alcoholic beverages, they went to speakeasies, they brought alcohol across the border from Canada, they bought from bootleggers, etc.
In 1927 the federal agents estimated gross income of Capone and his crew alone was $60,000,000 from beer and liquor. That is three-quarters of a billion dollars in 2011, according to the CPI Inflation Calculator (online). Also, in 1927 80% of Canada's whiskey production was purchased by American bootleggers.
Hannibal was only in his early 20s when he went to Spain. He became king at the death of his father when he was just 18.
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