Although liquor sales have fallen 26% since the war, there have been no dramatic price cuts. Last week distillers went on a small bender.
Kinsey Distilling Corp., Continental Distilling Corp. and W. A. Haller Corp., all subsidiaries of huge Publicker Industries, Inc., pulled the cork by cutting whisky prices an average of 10% in ten states. They planned similar reductions in nine additional states by July.
The reductions were made, said Continental President L. J. Gunson, because of the "postwar readjustment" (gobbledygook for falling sales) and the prospect of increased supplies. Schenley Industries...
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