Post-war Planning, No. 2: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on Post-war Planning. November 23, December 1, 2, and 7, 1943, January 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27, February 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 16, 17, and 23, March 1, and 2, 1944 ... |
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... able to afford without assistance . Private business also needs assurance on this point one way or the other . It needs to know whether public agencies will give employment to many millions of people , or whether it alone will be ...
... able to afford without assistance . Private business also needs assurance on this point one way or the other . It needs to know whether public agencies will give employment to many millions of people , or whether it alone will be ...
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... able and ready to buy the goods and serv- ices private business can produce . Paradoxically , therefore , the better Gov- ernment is prepared to provide jobs after the war , the fewer it would have to provide . Business itself would ...
... able and ready to buy the goods and serv- ices private business can produce . Paradoxically , therefore , the better Gov- ernment is prepared to provide jobs after the war , the fewer it would have to provide . Business itself would ...
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... able to the Department of Public Works and Buildings , and they , in turn , worked through the county superintendents of highways , and the projects were selected by the people who are willing and want to defray the cost . That was true ...
... able to the Department of Public Works and Buildings , and they , in turn , worked through the county superintendents of highways , and the projects were selected by the people who are willing and want to defray the cost . That was true ...
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... able to make plans , and so forth . unless they know what sort of definite policy the Federal Government is going to have , and they have to have that information with refer- ence , also , to the plans for things they will finance ...
... able to make plans , and so forth . unless they know what sort of definite policy the Federal Government is going to have , and they have to have that information with refer- ence , also , to the plans for things they will finance ...
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... able to evolve some proper policy . Mr. GIBSON . We can pass on his opinions later , but let him make his statement now . General FLEMING . As I say , it was traditional that there should be local initiative and responsibility . Back in ...
... able to evolve some proper policy . Mr. GIBSON . We can pass on his opinions later , but let him make his statement now . General FLEMING . As I say , it was traditional that there should be local initiative and responsibility . Back in ...
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