Show ti y z TOTAL TAL war means subordinating everything I to building vast armies armes and titanic fighting machines It If means complete mobilization of manpower of industry of resources It If means in effect a complete new pattern of life molded Ito to achieve one purpose purpose winning winning the war The new design for living of Americas America's persons has ta taken en shape beset by the dangers accompanying any transition from peacetime to wartime economy Employment and purchasing power have zoomed the supply of consumer goods has lessened as more and more more factories switched over to war goods Prices have gone up the dollars dollar's purchasing power has gone one down The nation has come to one of the big bg pitfalls of an all out effort effort declining declining money alue value or inflation f To avoid such a domestic crisis the United f States has put a fixed and definite ceiling on r f prices on prices on the cost of living The step is intended intended intended in- in tended to safeguard the spending power of the C average American from inflationary deterioration deterioration deterioration tion and gear it if to function smoothly in bs a machine mahne mai ma- ma i chine hine for total war U. U S. S ARMS PRODUCTION 1942 1943 PLAN PLANES ES nm 1 1 12 b tm TANKS TANKS t S bJ MERCHANT SHIPS t taJ TONS TONS dL COMBAT NAVAL SECRET SHIPS PAYROLLS ROCKET BILLIONS OF J Do j I 90 I COINS REPE 1 SENT INCOME I B i OF INDIVIDUALS j 80 I I l I hI I 70 1939 1940 1941 1942 EST si FACTORIES GEAR RE-GEAR RE ESTIMATED 2 4 t BILLIONS 1939 39 H 1941 1942 DOLL OF Of QS RS POCKETBOOKS FULL BUT LESS TO BUY n 74 INDIVIDUAL INCOME GOODS j jn J n 65 y BilliON 81 i |