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...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...
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...
...disappear. Because distilleries are making alcohol for munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys. But U.S. liquor stocks on the whole add up to perhaps a sober four-year supply. Most seriously threatened U.S. pastime is travel; most seriously threatened U.S. comfort is servants, handymen, and repairmen (because of the draft and war jobs for women); to the extent that it is real "suffering" for the citizen to have to stay at home more and to do his own house and yard work, the citizen will suffer...
Chambermaids, leaving beds unmade, marched out of the dormitories at 9 o'clock one morning, were joined by most of the university's handymen. A small crew stayed at work in the power plants, keeping Yale lights and heat going, and campus police, who are supernumeraries of the New Haven Police Department, also stood their posts. Said President Charles Seymour, urging students to keep calm: "I don't believe students will object to making their beds. I used to do it when I was a student in the Latin Quarter of Paris. ..." That hardship lasted only...