Use this record to date and bound the January 1942 mobilization event. Keep later expansions of wartime control separate until their governing orders are verified.
Primary order establishing the precise first-wave wartime restriction. Its scope turns on facility and equipment capability; it does not establish that every beverage distillery was covered.
Effective January 15, 1942, General Preference Order M-69 restricted distilling equipment at covered facilities capable of producing 190-proof-or-higher spirits from corn or other grain to that production, subject to the order’s definitions, exceptions, delivery directions, and capacity-preservation provisions.
§ 1050.1(c)–(j)
General Preference Order M-69 — Distilled Spirits
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