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Ghost Towns and Defense
Daniels, Jonathan | May 10, 1941 issue

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The people of the United States may not have prepared for war, but they had prepared for housing. When the President delivered his defense message on May 16, 1940, the day the Germans advanced past Sedan on the way south, eleven different federal agencies were concerned with housing in the United States. There bad been more thinking about housing by experts on the public pay roll during the eight years before the President spoke than in the whole history of the country before the United States went to war in 1917.

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HOUSING policy; HOUSING; WAR; PRESIDENTS; HISTORY; UNITED States
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