On the recordFebruary 15, 1943
Keeping on getting ready for the postwar period is going to save the Nation, I would say, almost several billion dollars in time, in lack of employment, in the uncertainty of employees.
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presidency.ucsb.eduFDR: “Keeping on getting ready for the postwar period is going to save the Nation, I would say, almost several billion dollars…”
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