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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week this question was analyzed carefully in a long memo from the office of Isador Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The memo recalls that World War I's first 16 months brought no price rise, that as late as December 1915 wholesale prices were only 6% above 1913, living costs only 5%. The early part of World War II presents a close parallel: when it started, the wholesale price level was 74.6% of the 1926 level, had been declining almost steadily ever since the end of the 1937 inflation...
...night of Aug. 31, Hitler jumped Poland and on Sept. 1, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Index of 28 spot prices jumped 4%. By Sept. 5, when England and France were in, these speculative prices were up 14% over August's average, by Sept. 22 they were up 27%-to a World War II high. The sharpest rise occurred understandably in import necessities: wool tops up 50% in two weeks, shellac up 74% in three. The more representative all-commodity index, reflecting industrial as well as raw commodity prices, reached a peak at 79.5, up only...
...ballroom of the Lord Baltimore Hotel was bright with patriotic bunting, with holly and mistletoe for the Christmas season. The Baltimore convention of the Farm Bureau Federation was coming to an end; 4,000 members crowded the ballroom floor and the balcony, stood against the wall in the back. To the silent crowd a small, intense counselor of the British Embassy in Washington, Nevile Butler, read the speech of his chief, Lord Lothian, who was announced as too ill to deliver it himself. It was a powerful statement, ending with an expression of faith in a final democratic victory...
...Great Expectations." Secretary Stimson first quoted an official report (by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) that labor troubles had caused only 1% of the construction delays. Next day, after the War Department had had a night to ponder his aspersions on the Army, he issued a '"transcript" which included some new observations. Chief change: less blame on military bumblers, more on labor...
...women of Germany, delivered beneath shiny new cannon in the Rhein-metall-Borsig munitions works. The other was dictated by the British Ambassador to the U. S., the Marquess of Lothian, from his deathbed, and was read by Embassy Counselor Nevile Butler to the convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Baltimore...