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...businessmen chafed under straitjacketing controls? Away with all such shackles, said Jimmy. Had housewives grumbled under rationing? There would be mountains of food. Czar Jimmy promised plenty of everything, and the removal of all possible controls. The Byrnes statement looked like politics but also good sense, for it was now plain that the U.S. had pulled in its belt tight enough and long enough to have a surplus of almost everything when Germany quits...
...Controlled Materials Plan (known to businessmen as "Gripes! More Paper") would be dropped. Most manufacturers will be virtually free to make anything they want. War work, as much as possible, will be concentrated in Government plants, to free privately owned plants for the manufacture of civilian goods. But said Czar Jimmy soothingly, the Government has no thought of operating its plants in postwar competition with private business. And, said Byrnes, dipping deep in the Santa Claus bag, "with the ending of the war there should be an end to the excess profits...
...Labor. Virtually all manpower controls are to be abandoned. The 48-hour week should be cut to 40, except in tight labor areas, to spread the work. Czar Jimmy once more begged Congress to pass legislation aiding the states to increase jobless benefits to a minimum of $20 weekly...
...Farmers. Since the U.S. is producing far more food than needed, Congress must continue to buy up surpluses, thus keep a floor under farm prices. As a starter, Czar Jimmy suggested that Congress appropriate $2 billion for this...
...this inviting picture, there was only one little glimpse of the war with Japan. Czar Jimmy mentioned it only casually...