American Decades
"Seizure!"
Magazine article
By: Time
Date: May 8, 1944
Source: "Seizure!" Time, May 8, 1944, 11–13.
About the Publication: Time was the most influential, national magazine in the United States during the World War II era, and remains one of America's most widely read news magazines.
Introduction
American industry realized high profits during the wartime economic boom. However, many business leaders considered the federal government heavy handed in allocating raw materials and imposing production quotas. Business leaders were also upset by what they viewed as government supervision of labor relations that highly favored unions. Despite this tension, public confrontation between business and the government rarely occurred.
One exception to this general rule of quiet tolerance, involving a showdown between the federal government and Montgomery...
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1940's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- Republican Criticism of New Deal Economics
- "Arsenal of Democracy"
- Fireside Chat on the Cost of Living and the Progress of the War
- The War Labor Board and What it Means to You
- "The Nine Hundred and Twenty-ninth Press Conference"
- "Seizure!"
- The Bretton Woods Proposals
- "It Must Not Happen Again"
- Statement before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency
- Investigation of Petroleum Resources
- "Housing and Full Employment"
- "We Back America"
- Truman Defends Taft-Hartley Act Veto
- Photographs of Supermarkets in the 1940s
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
