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HEARINGS

BEFORE A

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INVESTIGATION
OF THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE INDUSTRY

PART 1

DECEMBER 10, 16, AND 17, 1943

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1944

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

JAN 28 44

5. Taxes-paid bottling houses_

EXHIBITS

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6. Industrial alcohol plants, bonded warehouses, and denaturing plants.

7. Bonded wineries, bonded wine storerooms and bonded field warehouses.

8. National Distillers Products Corporation and subsidiaries__.

9. Plants operated by National Distillers Products Corporation and sub-

sidiary companies..

121

10. Schenley Distillers Corporation and subsidiary companies___

11. Plants operated by Schenley Distillers Corporation and subsidiary

companies.

123

124

12. Distillers Corporation-Seagrams, Ltd., and subsidiary companies---

13. Plants operated by Distillers Corporation-Seagrams, Ltd., and sub-

sidiary companies..

127

127

14. Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., and subsidiary companies

15. Plants operated by Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., and

subsidiary companies___

18. Stocks of distilled spirits in bonded warehouses 1901-44.

135

19. Collections of excise taxes 1934-44..

141

20. Whisky production, tax-paid withdrawals, stocks and income pay-

ments 1941-43.

142

21. Whisky production, tax-paid withdrawals, stocks, income payments,

and per capita consumption 1938-43_.

143

22. Stocks of distilled spirits by years and seasons in bonded warehouses

on June 30, 1943-

145

23. Distilled spirits into consumption 1942-43....

146

24. Distilled spirits imported for consumption_.

148

25. Distilled spirits improted from Puerto Rico and Philippine Islands..

26. Distilled spirits from insular possessions...

150

152

27. Whisky production, tax-paid withdrawals, stocks and bottling by

each of Big Four distillers and total by all other distillers, 1942-43_

28. Whisky production, tax-paid withdrawals, stocks, and bottling by

National Distillers. -

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161

29. Whisky production, tax-paid withdrawals, stocks, and bottling by

Schenley's..

162

30. Whisky production, tax-paid withdrawals, stocks, and bottling by

Seagram's...

163

31. Whisky production, tax-paid withdrawals, stocks, and bottling by

Hiram Walker..

164

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32. Whisky production, tax-paid withdrawals, stocks, and bottling by all

other distillers..

Page

165

33. Graph showing tax-paid withdrawals by each of Big Four distillers and

all other distillers, 1942-43_

Facing 166

34. Graph showing tax-paid withdrawals by each of Big Four and all other

distillers, 1942-43_.

35. Graph showing whisky bottled by each of the Big Four and all other

distillers, 1942-43-

36. Graph showing percentage of whisky bottled by each of the Big Four

and total by all other distillers, 1942-43..

37. Graph showing whisky stocks held by each of the Big Four and the

total held by all other distillers, 1942-43---

38. Graph showing percentage of whisky stocks held by each of the Big

Four and by all other distillers, 1942-43--

Facing 166

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39. Applications for certificates of label approval.

40. Applications for certificates of label approval.

41. Bottles used for distilled spirits, 1942-43--

42. Names and addresses, officers, and directors of National, Schenley,

Seagram, and Hiram Walker..

Excerpts from Temporary National Economic Committee hearings-
Excerpts from Gillette committee hearings.

Letter from Utah liquor control board..

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