I do not want the people to believe that because of unjustified optimism we can resume the ruinous practice of increasing our crop output and our factory output in the hope that a kind Providence will find buyers at high prices.
Roosevelt cautions against returning to overproduction driven by false optimism.
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The Secretary of the Interior shall make employment available and provide protection to all employees working at such mines.
The Federal Loan Administrator and the War Food Administrator are hereby designated as additional members of the Economic Stabilization Board.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to take possession of any and all such mines.
It will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.
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