With the falling off of profits in the illegal liquor industry, the mobsters have difficulty in paying protection.

8 seconds sound clip from the The Roaring Twenties (1939) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:27:19 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- I'll tell you what I'm gonna do for you, Eddie.

- I ain't gonna take all your cabs away.

- What's the hitch?

- I'm gonna leave you one, just one because you're going to need it, pal.

- First to feel the effects of the economic disaster which sweeps the country are the nightclubs, the speakeasies, and the bootleggers who serve them.

- With the falling off of profits in the illegal liquor industry, the mobsters have difficulty in paying protection.

- And the number of raids, arrests and convictions double and quadruple.

- Then in the depth of the economic despair that has gripped the country...

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president partially on the basis of his promise to end Prohibition.

- In New York City, thousands of jubilant citizens march in a great beer parade and shortly, 3.2 beer becomes legal.

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