Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived by the rules of traditional Neutrality. Plane makers continued to speed battle craft toward embarkation points for Great Britain and France. Makers of guns, bombs, shells, gas, powder, etc. could have done the same had they had shipments to make.* Franklin Roosevelt was pleased to let this state of affairs sink in on Congress and the U. S. people (82% of whom in a Gallup poll blamed Hitler for the war). He then obeyed Congress, recognized that war prevailed, embargoed exports of arms, munitions and materials of war to belligerents in conformity with the Neutrality...
Franklin Roosevelt frankly proposed letting the U. S. be an arsenal for the Allies (at good pay) while neutrally offering Germany the materials it could try to slip past the British blockade. His dramatization of statutory neutrality's paradoxes was aimed at bringing Congress to the same view. Such standpatters as Ohio's Taft, Maine's White, Georgia's George and Iowa's Gillette (whose adverse vote defeated the Administration neutrality program last July) switched their stand on the export of arms to belligerents. From outright embargo a Senate majority shifted to cash & carry...
More embarrassing to Earl Browder was an admission he let slip that he traveled through Europe during the last two years on a false U. S. passport. Asked to tell what name he had traveled under, Comrade Browder declined to answer on the ground that doing so might tend to incriminate him. Well might he be cautious. Day before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had warned that all travelers on fake passports would be prosecuted if apprehended (possible penalty: $2,000 fine and five years in jail...
...efficiency (volume of goods per worker) in production trebled but efficiency in distribution sat still, and a quarter of the country's workers were shifted from production to distribution. While U. S. businessmen goggled at the cost-saving possibilities of automatic machinery and scientific mass production, they let distribution grow into a vast, unscientific mushroom. Pennies snipped from production cost climbed back onto the cost of getting goods to the consumer...
...good wives grace those turbulent and dangerous times. One was Mariamne, sweet-tempered Jewish wife of Herod, who loved her desperately even though he let her be executed as a result of Salome's cold-blooded intrigues. The other was Amytis, wife of handsome, witty, tolerant Cyrus...