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TIL in 1955 Jack Daniel’s was selling about 150,000 cases annually of its black-labeled Tennessee whiskey. That year Frank Sinatra endorsed the liquor during a performance. Because of that, by the end of 1956 Jack Daniel’s sold about 300,000 cases

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