Mandatory grain controls lapse; Truman asks distillers to continue voluntarily

January 31, 1948

United States

The transition makes clear that postwar production restraint moved between voluntary agreement, mandatory allocation, and renewed voluntary pressure rather than following one continuous legal regime.

The presidential statement directly establishes expiration, the pending House bill, and Truman's voluntary request. It does not establish compliance or the request's duration; those require separate evidence.

When the one-month allocation authority expired before Congress extended it, Truman urged distillers to keep the January quotas and wheat prohibition voluntarily.