How the Boston Molasses Flood Worked

Oct 5, 2009

(Photo by The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Today, people associate molasses with cookies and other sweets. Yet in 1919 molasses was used in munitions as well as food -- and Boston had one of the biggest tanks around. Learn how molasses flooded Boston in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

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Topics in this Podcast: American history, U.S. history, disasters, floods, boston molasses flood, Boston, The Most Requested Episodes We Already Have

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