Cite the complete one-page supplementary order at 7 Fed. Reg. 1128.
Effective February 20, 1942, M-69 Supplementary Order No. 3 prohibited using the covered distilled-spirits production capacity of distilleries to make beverage spirits and limited that capacity to industrial storage or specified wartime and non-beverage recipients.
Verified against the full order and the contemporaneous M-69 definition. The order was issued February 20, 1942, and took effect immediately.
In M-69 at this stage, “distilled spirits” meant corn- or grain-derived ethyl alcohol at 190 proof or higher. The order should not be paraphrased as an immediate ban on every form of lower-proof whiskey or high-wines production.
The primary order expressly prohibits beverage use of the defined production capacity, specifies permitted non-beverage channels, and states immediate effect.
Editorial use
Use between the January 15 M-69 milestone and the later high-wines restrictions to show the staged expansion of wartime control.