Controlling primary evidence for the exact legal date on which WPB Order M-69 ceased. This narrows the later Senate account's 'by October 1945' shorthand.
Priorities Regulation 31 states that listed WPB orders and their published directions are revoked on the effective dates shown. M-69 appears in the chemical-orders list with August 31, 1945 as its effective revocation date.
“Section 3293.101, M-69, Distilled Spirits, August 31, 1945.”
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Priorities Regulation 31, § 944.52; list of revoked orders
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