whisky INDUSTRY, like the public utilities and the railroads, is closely regulated, and as a result a sufficiently large body of statistical data is available to provide an analyst's paradise. However, unlike the public utilities, the whisky business is highly competitive, so that it carries in combination some of the major elements of both regulated and free enterprise. And, unlike any other business, the marketing of whisky is, by specific Constitutional authority, a matter for state control. Thus, special retail price control legislation may be enacted as it has been in a number of states, and retail distribution may be monopolized by state stores as it has been in 17 states. The organization of the whisky industry, therefore, is unique in a number of points, and there are some elements of price control in whisky that do not exist in any other competitive industry.