Repetition of a PatternNineteen thirty-six, the fourth year of Roosevelt, was also the fourth year of marked business improvement. In addition to its relief and farm payments, the New Deal made an involuntary contribution to consumer prosperity by paying the World War veterans a $2,000,000,000 bonus. Big business was still thoroughly opposed to the New Deal, and still [...]  |
The Industry RecoversIn the meantime the country as a whole was continuing to recover from the depths of the depression, and the auto industry was recovering very much more rapidly than the country as a whole. Production for the first half of 1934 was 1,802,000 cars against 1,081,000 in the first half of 1933 an increase of [...] |
