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The Home Front and the Human Pyramid of War
A wartime editorial argues that victory rests on a vast human pyramid with workers at every level supplying food clothing weapons and fuel. It highlights manpower mobilization handicapped workers training shipyard labor fair employment practices and the need to recycle scrap metals while detailing wartime material cuts and allied support through lend lease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne
Germany
Royal Air Force
Mesabi
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
United States Employment Service
Mr. McNutt
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Florida
Colored
WPB
USA
United Nations
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Northern Ireland
Great Britain
Russia
Australia
Far East
Army
Navy
Office of Price Administration