The survival and progress of the Republic toward a self-supporting, stable economy will have an immense and far-reaching influence on the people of Asia.

The alternative to the Charter is economic conflict and shrinking international trade.

It is vitally necessary that the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act be extended in full force.

We need good low-priced low-rent housing.

My administration has been doing what it could to break up monopolies through the antitrust laws.

To the Senate: I return herewith, without my approval, S. 110, a bill 'To amend the Interstate Commerce Act with respect to certain agreements between carriers,' because it would permit an important segment of the economy to obtain immunity from the antitrust laws, and would do so without providing adequate safeguards to protect the public interest.

The Attorney General and the United States Maritime Commission shall act in consultation with the Secretary of State in carrying out the terms of this Executive order with all possible promptness in a manner which will effectuate the foreign policy of the United States to assist friendly and democratic European nations to rebuild their economies without delay.

I have signed the cost of living stabilization bill.

I would say as a whole that I am very well satisfied, because the production is so nearly up to the goal.

Every once in a while you find a plant that isn't clicking quite as well as it should.

The Nation must have more money to run the war.

When the cost of living spirals upward, everybody becomes poorer.

Production of war materials here is now the greatest in our history, but it is not yet enough.

And I think that if the farmer's wife all the way through the country had it explained to her, about the cost of living to her, I think the farmer's wife would appreciate it, and understand it, and go along with the effort to stabilize the cost of living.

Take, for example, the agricultural family.

It will upset the whole war effort if they don't make certain sacrifices in the things they buy.

There remains the irreducible requirement for a volume of new public construction.

The continuation of an orderly market will be of vital importance both during the war and during the period of readjustment that will follow.