Boston Molasses Disaster | A Deadly Deluge | 1
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The Challenges of Managing a New Storage Tank
Arthur gel had risen steadily through the ranks of purity distilling to become the company's treasurer. Gel would oversee the construction of a new storage tank in Boston for its lucrative molasses shipments. Once completed the tank would be the largest on the east coast much larger than the company's smaller storage tanks in Brooklyn. It would stand 50 feet tall, span 240 feet in circumference and have a capacity of nearly 2.5 million gallons The tank's construction would require massive steel plates, thousands of rivets and hours of manpower all in short supply due to the war effort.
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