Boston's Great Molasses Flood Of January 1919

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    Molasses glasses.....
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    Remembering the 100th anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood....From Hamilton, Ontario.
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    "Up at the top of Strathearne Avenue, a place no one goes unless they have to, there's a company called Contanda."

    "Those 54 carbon-steel tanks hold specialty chemicals, fertilizer, petroleum products, base oils, biodiesel, wax, vegetable oil and molasses. It's that last one that interests us today."

    "Graeme Clark runs the Hamilton operation. I brought up this anniversary with Clark. He is a genial man but not especially keen to have his company associated with that grim event. So, let's say it right now — it was a long time ago, and everything is different today. You do not need to fear the seven tanks of molasses on Hamilton's shores."
     
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    The tank was "built" in 1915 and the last law suit was settled in 1925.
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    To mark the 100th anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood this month, Pimentel’s brewery has filled the retail cooler with cans of the Great Molasses Disaster, a Boston-brewed imperial stout made with 200 pounds of blackstrap molasses. The beer will see limited Boston-area distribution, as well.
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    “No prominent people were killed in the molasses flood, and the survivors did not go on to become famous; they were mostly immigrants and city workers who returned to their workday lives, recovered from injuries, and provided for their families,”

    ‘There was no escape from the wave’: These are the 21 victims of the Great Boston Molasses Flood

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    Oh! Molasses!
     
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