Word: handymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speculation Is Wonderful. One thing soon became clear: Harry Truman had not talked over his Eddie Jacobson speech with the front-parlor boys in the State Department, or the political handymen in his "Kitchen Cabinet." And no key Administration official was talking of a letup in the four-way squeeze on Russia: the airlift, the Marshall Plan, the upcoming $15 billion new arms budget, the proposed North Atlantic security pact. The best "educated guess" that his advisers could make was that Harry Truman, all on his own, was just trying a little propaganda campaign to start a little mutual distrust...
...economic machinery of peace needed even more tinkering than that of war. Built of odds & ends of free enterprise and New Dealism, held together with charity and hope, the weird and wonderful machine wobbled on. Washington's economic handymen worked their heads off, hoping that the whole contraption could be saved from an inflation boom & bust...
...Little Patience. The economic handymen had answers. Reconversion Director John W. Snyder had reported that production of civilian goods was the highest in history ($150 billion a year). Was there still a clothing shortage? Stabilization Director Chester Bowles asked only for a little patience and fortitude. The clothing shortage, said he, would be a "lot better" by mid-July...
According to many an economic handyman in Washington, a little tinkering will make the old machinery of capitalism run a lot better. In 1942, Washington handymen began tinkering with meatpacking...
Auction haunters, bargain hunters, household handymen are just waiting for the day when the war ends and Army supplies, tools, trucks-maybe even airplanes-will be for sale. For citizens who can get priorities to buy, the day is already here...