For population 25 years and over in Mingus Mountain: 1  High school or higher: 82.4%. 2  Bachelor's degree or higher: 16.7%. 3  Graduate or professional degree: 6.0 4 %. Unemployed: 4. 5 8%. Mean travel time to work (commute): 19.6 minutes.
In December 1917, Congress passed the 18th Amendment. A month later, President Woodrow Wilson instituted partial prohibition to conserve grain for the war effort. Beer was limited to 2.75 percent alcohol content, and production was held to 70 percent of the previous year's production.In September, the president issued a ban on the wartime production of beer. month later, President Woodrow Wilson instituted partial prohibition to conserve grain for the war effort. Beer was limited to 2.75 percent alcohol content, and production was held to 70 percent of the previous year's production.
Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Enabling legislation, known as the Volstead Act, set down the rules for enforcing the ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited.This act, which had been intended to save grain for the war effort, was passed after the armistice ending World War I was signed on November 11, 1918.) The Wartime Prohibition Act took effect June 30, 1919, with July 1, 1919, becoming known as the Thirsty-First.