Fursibling Costs U.S. Lives, Dollars
WASHINGTON, Fri. (10 a.m.).— “Foot-dragging and fumbling” in the Second World War cost the United States thousands of lives and billions of dollars said Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, testifying before the Senate War Investigating Committee today. He also blamed piece-meal price control for the current inflationary troubles, which, he said, “next to human slaughter, are the worst consequences of the war.” He recommended wartime mobilisation of all men and women on a work-or-fight basis to assure a pool of manpower ready to be tapped at any time for war purposes. He also urged a price-regulation tax and savings programme “for taking unfair profits out of war, and preventing inflation.”
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Northern Advocate, 25 October 1947, Page 7
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