Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discussing the ability of the nation's industries to undertake the war load, Colonel Rutherford said that in a two-year major war "expenditures for the War Department alone might total $12,000,000,000-$4,000,000,000 possibly in the first year, and $8,000,000,000 in the second year, after industry reached its full power...
...Council Against Intolerance in America (cochairmen: William Allen White, George Gordon Battle, W. Warren Barbour) sent to the nation's high schools a manual called An American Answer to Intolerance, instructing teachers how to immunize pupils against propaganda, teach them not to hate aliens, Jews or Germans (by teaching them to recognize their own prejudices, propagandists' tricks...
Franklin Roosevelt received last week a report from his National Resources Committee* which made two striking calculations: 1) if the U.S. had given full employment to all its workers (except 2,000,000 considered normally unemployed) the nation would have had $200,000,000,000 more income between 1930 and 1937; 2) this $200,000,000,000 of wasted labor could have supplied a new $6,000 house for every family...
...assembly lines reduce the proportionate need for skilled workmen, 2) it rapidly steps up the industry to meet possible wartime needs of the U. S. Some experts calculate the combat life of a warplane at 30 days, which means that soon after a war starts the size of a nation's air force would be the monthly capacity of its factories. Last week plants like Martin and Lockheed were hiring men as fast as they could be interviewed. They were not greatly worried about a shortage of skilled mechanics because army and civilian schools were turning them...
...story hangs a question mark that may decide von Horvath's insight as a novelist of his time: How prophetic is the lance-corporal's gradual disillusionment with the Nazi creed? First crack in his faith comes during an undeclared war on "a weak, incompetent nation, with a deplorable system of government." Wounded and permanently disabled while trying to save his captain under machine-gun fire, he discovers that the captain deliberately committed suicide in preference to looting, shooting prisoners, bombing women, children, wounded. When Nazi indifference to individuals robs him of a girl, his mind is coldly...