Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AFTERMATH-Jules Remains-Knopf...
...worst that could be said about U. S. Business in 1940 was that the defense boom took businessmen by surprise. It was not their boom, and they joined it with reluctance. The last time the economic controls shifted to Washington, the aftermath was not pleasant. In 1940, they prudently remembered...
This year some economists say that the record boom in production has put inventories up to an all-time high. Recalling the unhappy aftermath of their last peak -the third quarter of 1937-these economists are worried. But the inventory bulge of 1940 is not so dangerous as it would be in normal times. Reason: it is concentrated in the warehouses of heavy industries, which, loaded with defense orders, are understandably freezing as much inventory as possible (mainly of durable goods) against possible war-goods shortages in 1941. Last week November's returns from the non-defense sector...
This week's election for a third term in the White House was no ordinary election; there would be neither space nor time now for the ordinary aftermath of victory. Not because the U. S. wanted a third term, but because the country faced one of the most threatening crises in its history, had the U. S. people assigned Franklin Roosevelt his staggering task...
...been a disagreement over the issue of war and peace. Anything but eager to duplicate the 1917 performance, generally held--as last June's Commencement Orator phrased it--to "stand condemned by its record," youth has pointed to post-war economic blind-alleys as the direct outgrowth and aftermath of the war itself...