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Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week. There was a strong hint (from Steve Early) that the White House meant to put the whole thing off till next fall. Strategy: by then the cost of living would have gone so high that an angry...
Morale. "If the Germans are able to send shirts, flashlights, bicycles, shoes, radios, etc., into Russia in large quantities, most peasants and probably workers will be satisfied to live under German domination. ... In 1932, when I first went to Russia, many people still worked self-sacrificingly because they believed profoundly...
The die-casting industry employs less than 25,000 workers and represents only 125 independent companies, most of them very small. But quite apart from the crucial 15% of its production that goes to defense, its demise would leave a colossal gap in the U.S. economy-through its 5,000...
Their $600,000.000 industry had been picked by OPM as one of the first real victims of priorities among consumer industries (see p. 18). They were picked because they use a lot of aluminum (6 sq. ft. of sheet per set), as well as zinc, copper, lead, other critical materials...
Ickes' warnings of "gasless Sundays" recalled World War I days, when Sunday driving became treasonous, children stoned cars, and pedestrians yelled "slacker" at any driver who ventured out. Since then the Sunday ride has become a major U.S. recreation. Washington, in 1941, shrank from spoiling it, preferred a straight...