A contemporaneous July 1945 report documents the War Production Board’s July release and consideration of further limited production; WFO 141 authorized an August 1–6 non-corn window for registered distilleries and an August 1–3 window for qualifying industrial alcohol plants; an official 1948 Senate account reports additional shorter release periods through October.
WFO 141’s exact August 1–6 and August 1–3 windows qualify the retrospective Senate shorthand of 10-day/5-day releases. This is a precision correction, not evidence against the broader staged-release pattern.
Verified as a staged-release pattern using contemporaneous July reporting, the controlling August order WFO 141, and the complete February 26, 1948 Congressional Record issue. WFO 141 establishes that the August window was six days for registered distilleries and three days for qualifying industrial alcohol plants.
The individual September and October authorization instruments have not been captured. The 1948 Senate statement summarizes post-July releases as 10-day/5-day periods, but WFO 141 shows that those durations were not universal; public wording therefore says “shorter windows” rather than assigning one duration to the whole period.
The evidence now supports the pattern strongly while also revealing that different instruments set different durations. The claim preserves the chronology without flattening distinct regulatory windows.
Promoted and precision-corrected after capture of WFO 141.