Foster & Co. loses challenge to a reduced wartime whiskey price ceiling

September 27, 1944

United States

The dispute shows how wartime price control handled a whiskey brand without its own March 1942 base-period price and how a later standardized ceiling could override an earlier individual price approval across existing contracts.

Draft-ready as an explicitly attributed OPA account from printed pages 35–36 of the complete report. The underlying Foster & Co. v. Bowles opinion is not yet in the library; consult it before making a doctrinal claim about the court's reasoning.

According to OPA's quarterly report, the Emergency Court of Appeals rejected Foster & Co.'s challenge after standardized dollar-and-cent ceilings reduced the previously approved maximum price for its new packaged-whiskey brand.