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...this on the Good Neighbor policy, the British overlooked one fact. It is mainly through this same policy that Brazil is able to resume interest payments at all. Because of Lend-Lease, and the resulting purchase by the U.S. of vast stores of raw materials, Brazil's pocketbook is the fattest in years. As many U.S. moneymen pointed out, the plan is better than any which Britain has thus far secured. No matter what its drawbacks, the plan promises to put interest payments to U.S. and British bondholders, even if reduced, on a reasonably permanent basis...
Almost before the Secretary had finished reading his prepared statement, the U.S. Treasury's design for extracting another $10,500,000,000.00 from the U.S. pocketbook was mackerel-dead. Cried Democrat Robert L. ("OF Muley") Doughton, head of the Ways & Means Committee: "Utterly indefensible." Cried Republican Harold Knutson: "How much of it is for revenue and how much is for politics...
Many a U.S. city, its population and pocketbook swollen by war work, has worried itself sick over an inevitable postwar collapse. Last week the city fathers of Portland, Ore. did something about...
...news really means to him. He gets a whole lot of pictures, like a series of disjoined subjects thrown on a screen. When it's all over, he doesn't know what the hell it means to him. He wants to know what it means to his pocketbook, to his-belly ... his living habits, his clothes, his home. That's the way we are going to try to write the news...
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and his staff sprang the greatest assault in history on the U.S. pocketbook. The objective: $13 billion in War Bonds in three weeks...