Distillers operate without fixed total-use quotas before the 1947 shutdown

December 1, 1946–late October 1947

United States

This interval helps explain the postwar production rebound while showing that 'uncontrolled' must be qualified: narrower commodity restrictions continued and the interval ended through negotiated industry restraint.

The opening boundary is now verified in the controlling WFO 141 Amendment 4 and WFO 141-1 Amendment 3. Two complete Truman records verify the closing shutdown but differ by one day on its start; the timeline therefore uses 'late October.'

After Agriculture ended its authorization and fixed-total-use quota regime on December 1, 1946, distillers operated without total-use production quotas until a voluntary grain-conservation shutdown began in late October 1947.