Official congressional confirmation of two distinct production holidays.
The January 15 committee-report passage was read during Senate debate over S. Res. 17. It identified August 1944 and January 1945 as separate beverage-production holidays and characterized them as increasing potable-liquor supplies and combating the black market.
The January 15 committee report said facilities were released for beverage-alcohol production during August 1944 and January 1945.
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Senate discussion of S. Res. 17
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Evidence
This paraphrase preserves the committee report's identification of two separate releases of alcohol-manufacturing facilities for beverage production: August 1944 and January 1945.
Location and context
Locator: Congressional Record, February 5, 1945, printed page 788, Senate discussion of S. Res. 17.
Context: The passage from the January 15 committee report was read during debate about continuing the Senate investigation of the alcoholic-beverage industry. The report also characterized the releases as increasing potable-liquor supplies and combating the black market.
Annotation
The passage is official congressional confirmation that contemporaries treated the August 1944 and January 1945 releases as distinct production holidays. Exact legal boundaries should still be drawn from the underlying wartime orders.