Shows institutional continuity being actively reconstructed after legal interruption rather than simply persisting unchanged.
The passage follows Prohibition's closure of most Bardstown-area distilleries and precedes the post-repeal market and financing problem.
Noe recounts that Jim Beam and relatives rebuilt and renamed a plant after repeal, returned it to production rapidly, and treated the restart as a family effort to preserve a whiskey-making legacy.
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