Use the complete Internal Revenue annual report for the date and exception; use the Senate report only for its attributed industry-conversion description.
By October 8, 1942, production of distilled spirits for beverage purposes had been discontinued across the main whiskey-producing sector; the Bureau of Internal Revenue explicitly excepted brandy and rum, while a contemporaneous Senate investigation described the liquor industry's beverage-distillation stop and conversion of distilling facilities to industrial-alcohol work.
The complete 109-sheet Internal Revenue report was preserved and reviewed; its passage was verified on printed pages 38–39. The governing M-69 source records already document January, February, and November layers.
This concerns production, not bottling, sale, distribution, or warehouse withdrawal. Brandy and rum continued to be produced. Do not describe October 8 as the effective date of a single universal WPB order; the legal transition occurred through layered M-69 restrictions, with a consolidated amendment effective November 1.
Two independent official wartime accounts give the October 8 date. The complete 1944 Internal Revenue report supplies the limiting language, and the Senate report supplies the broader industry-conversion description. Existing M-69 orders establish the layered production-control mechanism before and after that date.
The earlier overbroad wording has been corrected. Promotion is based on converging official accounts and a legally accurate layered-order chronology.
Editorial use
Use as the second wartime-production milestone, following the narrower January 15, 1942 M-69 restriction.
Boundary
The event describes cessation of new beverage-spirit distillation. Existing whiskey could still be stored, withdrawn, blended, bottled, rationed, and sold.