Domestic Markets and the Postwar Economic Outlook
The text discusses the importance of domestic markets, especially agriculture, and analyzes 1931-1941 national income data. It notes losses in incorporated and unincorporated businesses, 20 billion dollars drawn from reserves, and calls for planning and reserve accumulation to support peacetime production and private capital postwar. It emphasizes equal justice and the link between markets, liberty, and opportunity.
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These Things We Are Thankful For In Wartime
A wartime reflection celebrates American industry and free enterprise aiding war effort. It praises research fueling production of food and mechanized equipment for troops and allies, and lauds liberty, invention, and individual dignity against totalitarian threats.
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Axis
America
United States
Freedom of Speech Quotations and Principles
The quotation attributed to Voltaire on defending free speech is presented, noting the tension between disapproval and defense of expression. It frames the core principle of tolerating opposing views as a safeguard for speech.
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Voltaire
The Deadly Gimme Bug and Civic Waste
A clipped discussion notes that the so called gimme bug is harder to cure than typhoid. It argues wartime waste and pay roll issues hinder science and American common sense from developing an antidote.
Teaching History in Schools Sparks National Debate
A national discussion cites Allan Nevins and Wheeler McMillen on the lax teaching of United States history in 22 states and weak college history requirements. Critics warn lack of history in curricula risks unity and the nation’s democratic system during wartime.
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Allan Nevins
New York Times
Nevins
United ‘States
United States
Free Country Cartoon Prompts Debate On Life Insurance Freedom
A life insurance company posts a cartoon showing a policy holder requesting the latest report from a state insurance department. The caption asks where such scenes could occur except in a free country. The piece argues life insurance profits from American free enterprise and personal liberty.
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United States
Railways Key to War Effort Says Rail Age
Good Management quotes Railway Age asserting the nation relies on efficient railway service for wartime needs. It notes the expansion of war production makes rail facilities including yards tracks cars locomotives and signals essential parts of Uncle Sam's war machine alongside guns tanks and bombers.
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Railway Age
Uncle Sam
The United States as Leader in Postwar Reconstruction
Dr Gustav Stolper, a nationally known economist, predicts America will remain the only major industrial power with intact facilities and social fabric after the war. He argues vast reconstruction lies ahead abroad that private enterprise must undertake in a free society, and urges the United States to retain its current system to guide the civilized world.
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Gustav Stolper
United States
Stolper
America
Wasting Money and Manpower in Wartime Policy
A Civil Service Report cites over 12 000 men in Emergency Management and 17 000 in the Office of Price Administration as examples of manpower misuse. The piece argues to shift workers to arms and farms, extend hours, cut nonessential payrolls, and end peacetime limits to accelerate victory.
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Civil Service
Civil Service Commission
Emergency’ Management
Office of
Price Administration
Free America
Social Security A Taxing Machine
Senator Vandenberg argued against increasing social security taxes citing the law, current tax flows, and large IOUs. He warned the fund acts as a disguised tax, with reserves far above future needs, urging balance between benefits and payments to preserve trust in the program.
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Vandenberg
Social Security Fund
General Treasury
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Morgenthau
Labor on the Farm Front in War Time
A concise wartime note praises farmers as essential workers who labor until the job is done, emphasizing that a farmer’s hours are defined by need rather than fixed time, reflecting the era’s emergency conditions.
Keep em Rolling on the Farm Front War Food Effort
Miss Bess Rowe declares the farm front is the food front and urges continuing efforts to keep the food supply moving through assembly lines. The quote emphasizes mobilizing farm production to support wartime needs.
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Bess Rowe
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