Use to connect Prohibition policy to post-Repeal corporate structure, not merely to colorful bootlegging anecdotes.
The loophole was both a legal exception and a mechanism of capital consolidation.
Licensed medicinal sales and consolidation warehouses allowed a small group of firms to acquire distressed whiskey stocks, trademarks, and brands during Prohibition, shaping the concentrated industry that emerged after repeal.
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Chapter Eleven — A Collection of Contradictions
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Evidence
Licensed medicinal sales and consolidation warehouses allowed a small group of firms to acquire distressed whiskey stocks, trademarks, and brands during Prohibition, shaping the concentrated industry that emerged after repeal.
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Start: 128
End: 130
Source section: Chapter Eleven — A Collection of Contradictions
Context
The loophole was both a legal exception and a mechanism of capital consolidation.
Annotation
Use to connect Prohibition policy to post-Repeal corporate structure, not merely to colorful bootlegging anecdotes.
Verification
Status: Verified
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheets 128–130. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.