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...from the simultaneous need to build a whole new Navy and a vast cargo fleet, plus hundreds of new oil refineries, aluminum plants, synthetic rubber plants, steel mills, etc. War in Asia had found the U.S. with most of these facilities in use or in reserve. Thus, even the heavier requirements for aircraft and tank production now would come far from matching the huge needs of World...
...need not go into the consequences of that act of omission . . . Fortunately, today, the aggression against the Republic of Korea has been met with determination by the United Nations . . I am convinced that the sacrifices made now will, in the long run, save the peoples of the world much heavier sacrifices in future years and decades...
...been dizzyingly swift. Communist imperialism began its march through Asia before V-J Day. It used the most mobile of weapons, political agitation and ruthless organization. In Korea-as in China, Indo-China, Malaya and Burma-native Communists, shouting slogans of freedom and independence, were forging for their people heavier chains of slavery than even Asia had ever known...
...Korean war would cause heavier defense spending-and there seemed little doubt that it would-the big question was: How much more spending could an uncontrolled economy stand without serious inflation? There was now little overall slack in the economy. The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production for June was estimated to be equal to the record peacetime high. Steelmakers had been operating at better than 100% of their theoretical capacity for eleven straight weeks-and had not yet caught up with demand. Automakers and many another consumer-goods manufacturer were running months behind in their deliveries...
...Heavier clothing is necessary for the ocean voyage thus European climes require. The shrewd traveler takes a tweed or woolen suit and overcoat with him just for the high seas and stores them away when he lands until September...