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1 online resource (497 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables and Graphs; Forward; Preface; PROLOGUE: WORLD ECONOMY BETWEEN WARS; Economic Aftermath of War; Gold-Plated Standard; World Depression; Departure from Gold; Defaulting Debtors; Economic Autarchy and Rearmament; Recession and World War; I . DESCENT AND DEFICIT; Stock Market Collapse; Whistling in the Dark; Fluctuations during Depression; Public Purse Flattened; Economy Enjoined; New Deal Deficit Financing; Deeper into Debt; Recession and Renewed Spending; Defense as Object of Spending |
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Defense Deficits AcceptedResponse in Heavy Industries and Employment; II . HOOVER' DEPRSESSION POLICIES; America's Part in World Depression; Restricted Imports Lessened Dollar Exchange; Farm Relief Badly Needed; Bumper Crops or Drought, but Always Mortgages; Abortive Efforts of Farm Board; Injurious Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Unwelcome Publicity for Big Borrowers; III . EVOLUTION OF RELIEF; Embarrassing Reputation; Bread Line for Business; Scholars Had Few Solutions; Counts of the Unemployed; Basis of Unemployment Estimates |
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Voluntary and Decennial CensusesCharacter of Unemployment; Bankruptcy of Private Philanthropy; Disappointed Reliance on Local Relief; Starving in the Midst of Surplus; Rural Idyll; Shame of Anacostia Flats; Portentous Forecast; Hoover's Inhibited Public Works; Save or Spend?; IV. BANKING AND CURRENCY CRISIS; New Deal Brains Trust -- Phenomenal Bank Failures; Bank Paralysis; Measures to Meet Financial Crisis; Preparation for Inflation; World Economic Conference Scuttled; A Discomfited Messenger; William Jennings Bryan Redivivus; Domestic Intent Political, Worl dEffects Pernicious |
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Pictures in the EmbersV. FINANCIAL AND BANKING REFORMS; Mournful Post-Mortem; Stock Exchange Manipulation; Bank Affiliates and Investment Trusts; Corrective and Protective Measures; Bailing Out the Banks, and a New Act; More Power for the Reserve Board; Policing Promotion of Securities; Limiting Utility Holding Companies; Underpinning Investment; VI . AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT; Shrinking Demand for Farm Staples; Resort to Planned Scarcity; The Plow-Up and the Kill -- Increasing Coercion Necessary to Restriction; Other Devices for Raising Prices; Judging the Success of AAA |
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Sharecroppers VictimizedNature Takes a Hand; Soil Conservation and the ""Ever-Normal Granary; Rescue for Destitute Farmers; Problem of Farm Tenancy; Rebuilding Cheaper Than Relief; The Threat of the Cotton Picker; Rise of Rayon; Invention for the Farm; Electric Current for Country Users; Soil Protection; Over-All Results for Agriculture; VII . NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION; Gradual Growth of Labor Protections; Maximum Hours, Minimum Wages; Contradictions in NIRA; Process of Code Making; The Blanket Code; Industry Dominant in Codes; Trade Practice Provisions; Price and Production Control |
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Code Administration Vexed |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315496726 |
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1315496720 |
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