ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York, March 17, 1933

* Prohibition ending - Beer returning - legal liquor
* Original King Kong film opening day advertisement

The top of the front page has a banner headline: "CONGRESS O.K.'S BEER SALE BY APRIL" with subheads. Nice for display.
Page 16 has 8 x 4 inch advertisement for the opening day showing of "KING KONG" in Albany, New York. (see images)
Complete with 22 pages, light toning, some margin wear, generally good.

Background: Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in March 1933, the Cullen–Harrison Act (often called the Beer-Wine Revenue Act) marked a monumental turning point in American history by legalizing the manufacture and sale of 3.2% alcohol by weight beverages, serving as the critical first step toward the repeal of Prohibition. By amending the stringent Volstead Act to classify low-alcohol beer and wine as non-intoxicating, the law provided immediate relief to a country crippled by the Great Depression, generating essential tax revenue for the federal government and sparking massive job creation across brewing, agriculture, and distribution sectors. Taking effect on April 7, 1933—a date now commemorated as National Beer Day—this legislative milestone revitalized public morale, demonstrated the Roosevelt administration's commitment to pragmatic reform, and laid the direct legislative foundation for the ratification of the 21st Amendment later that December, which permanently ended the nation's thirteen-year ban on alcohol.