Industrial-alcohol totals concern broader industry, not bourbon alone. Plant conversion needs dates, scope, units and exceptions.
The author presents wartime service as part of bourbon’s patriotic public image.
Distilleries redirected capacity to industrial alcohol and other war requirements, integrating whiskey plants into national mobilization before postwar reconversion.
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