Existing-stock and medicinal-sale permissions do not prove uninterrupted distillation. Famous bootlegging stories and fatality estimates require corroboration.
George Remus is used as a vivid example of legal expertise combined with diversion and corruption.
Existing stocks, medicinal prescriptions, export, permits, warehouses, pharmacies, false-front firms, diversion, bribery, transport, and small illicit stills together kept whiskey moving after 1920.
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2026-09-29: fresh supplied-copy review covered all 320 sheets and 87 enlarged visuals. This entry is checked for fidelity to the cited passage, not independent truth. Copy lacks at least endnotes 39–56; earlier complete-source wording is superseded. Existing-stock and medicinal-sale permissions do not prove uninterrupted distillation. Famous bootlegging stories and fatality estimates require corroboration.
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