Purity Distilling Company
company
2 mentions
2 recordings
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Jun
±0 vs the 12 months before
Company that owned the tank that burst in 1919
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentTim HarfordCautionary Tales with Tim Harford · Treacle Tears: The Boston Molasses Disaster · 6:50 · 26 Jun
…Jell was assistant treasurer at the Purity Distilling Company, part of United States Industrial Alcohol, or USIA.…
ElenaMorbid · Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919 · 10:10 · Mar 2025
…A molasses flood, like that's weird. It's still kind of unknown exactly what caused it to happen. It happened at the Purity Distilling Company. Their molasses storage tank was the one that burst and dumped its contents across the North End. And it really is one of Boston's most... bizarre pieces of history and folklore to this day. It's so tragic and so biz…
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