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Collected Item: “Distillers scrambled to make hand sanitizer for free. Then the federal government moved on”

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Distillers scrambled to make hand sanitizer for free. Then the federal government moved on

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News Article

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Article discussing hand sanitizer production during the COVID-19 pandemic

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canada, hist9801

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/distillers-hand-sanitizer-pandemic-1.5813509

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CBC, Yvette Brend

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2020-12-08
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