Fiscal year 1947
United States
The mismatch between production and marketing share shows that postwar concentration operated through brands, bottling, purchasing from independents, and distribution as well as ownership of distilling capacity.
The complete 42-page Congressional Record daily segment was structurally validated, rendered, and visually reviewed. Printed page 1696 confirms the attributed fiscal-1947 production and bottled-whiskey marketing comparison. The event is draft-ready as an explicitly attributed, bounded snapshot; the issue does not contain the underlying company-by-company datasets.
Four large companies accounted for just under half of spirits production but approximately three-quarters of bottled-whiskey marketing, according to a 1948 Senate account.