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Guns and Butter
Chase, Stuart | November 23, 1946 issue

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With twelve million of their huskiest workers in the armed forces, the people of the U.S. came dose to doubling the national production in four years. This miracle was due to many causes. Citizens worked longer hours; some millions of women, youngsters, and oldsters came out of the home, the school, and the Florida sunshine to go into war plants. Patriotism made many people work harder and better; the work was directed to a goal, instead of being just work. In 1940 there had been neatly ten million unemployed, generally regarded by the best people as bums and loafers. They formed a great pool of man-power for shipyards, aircraft factories, and atom-bomb plants, as well as the armed services.

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NATIONAL income; BUSINESS enterprises -- United States; MILITARY art & science; UNITED States. Army; ARMED Forces; UNITED States
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