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FDR: “There are to be no further increases in wage rates or salary scales beyond the Little Steel formula.”

On the recordApril 7, 1943
There are to be no further increases in wage rates or salary scales beyond the Little Steel formula.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Statement on Signing an Executive Order on Stabilization of Wages, Prices, and Salaries

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