Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, Brinton served as a special assistant to the Office of Strategic Services in the European Theater...
...search of employment, unable to secure adequate training facilities, unable to barter trained or untrained muscle and brain for over a pittance, forming a desperate reservoir of reserve labor and an unwitting weapon against the unemployed. Many of us are former servicemen, our meager veterans allotments exhausted, our post-war dreams of full employment smashed. To the ever-louder demands of our youth for jobs, all Wall St. men can answer is "Join the Army...
According to a transcript of her speech, the chairman stated that "scarcely have the war drums died down...while peace-loving countries are busily planning, working, and rebuilding their social order, there are those who are plotting further exploitation and oppression. Foremost among them are the banks and trusts--the high financiers, monopolists, imperialists of America...Through the Marshall Plan they dump their produce on the needy peoples of the world...through the guise of being champions of world democracy they dictate the political policies of the participating countries." She went on to cite the example of the Soviet Union...
...Smaller displays, stating, among other things, that U. S. business profits were evidence of the Cold War" paying off," that American unemployment was climbing as wages fell, that only one half of one percent of young U. S. farmers own their won farms...
...said he intends to see that the 15,000,000 World War II veterans receive every benefit to which they are entitled, an average of forty months apiece at an average of $100 a month...