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Kirchwey, Freda | November 4, 1939 issue

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This article analyses the impact of First World War on the U.S. Since the collapse of Poland, the most vigorous fighting of the First World War has taken place on the front pages of the American press. On October 30, 1939, for the first time since the war began, the New York "Times" appeared with a front page of chaste single-column headlines. The "war" was on page 4. A number of leading industrialists in the U.S. have attempted to damp down the war-boom fever. They have declared that war business is an unhealthy basis for prosperity; they have deprecated speculative buying and expressed intentions of discouraging price inflation. To most Americans the central fact about the war in Europe in its failure to conform to the advance build-up.

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WORLD War, 1914-1918; NEWSPAPERS -- Headlines; INDUSTRIALISTS; INFLATION (Finance); NATIONAL socialism; UNITED States
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