Shows how wartime price control treated a new whiskey brand without its own March 1942 base-period price and how later standardized ceilings could supersede an earlier individually approved maximum.
OPA's quarterly report summarizes Foster & Co. v. Bowles, No. 140, decided September 27, 1944, as part of its review of Emergency Court of Appeals cases.
OPA reported that Foster & Co. obtained a maximum price for a new packaged-whiskey brand by reference to other brands' March 1942 prices. Later dollar-and-cent ceilings for brands absent from the base period lowered that price across existing contracts, and the Emergency Court of Appeals rejected the company's challenge to the Price Administrator's authority.
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Price Control: Fuels, Services, and Other—Foster and Company
Verified against printed pages 35–36 in the complete 93-page official report. This is an agency summary of the dispute and result, not a quotation from the judicial opinion.
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Evidence
The paraphrase preserves OPA's description of the new brand's base-period pricing problem, the later standardized ceiling, its effect on existing contracts, and the reported court result.
Location and context
Locator: OPA, Eleventh Quarterly Report, printed pages 35–36, “Foster and Company.”
Context: The report summarizes Foster & Co. v. Bowles, No. 140, decided September 27, 1944, during its review of Emergency Court of Appeals cases.
Annotation
The passage shows how wartime price control treated a whiskey brand without its own March 1942 price and how a later standardized ceiling could supersede an earlier individual approval. It is an agency summary, not the judicial opinion.