374 REPORT TO THE NATION No. 8 This DOLLAR business Why the shortage to-day? Because there is so much production of food and goods in America and too little in Europe and other countries where farms and factories were devastated by the war. America has far more to supply to other countries than they have to offer in return. So we all need far more dollars than we are earning. Why no shortage before the war? Even before the war Britain bought much more from U.S.A. than U.S.A. bought from Britain. We had to pay "indirectly.
- Collection ID
- HATOM
- Document Reference
- HATOM/3/314
- Document Types
- Ephemera
- File Reference
- HATOM/3
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.hatom.000003.314
- Keywords
- Cotton Employment Exports Finance Foreign Currency Industrial Production Industry Labour Supply Overseas Trade Textiles
- Language
- English
- Locations Discussed
- United States of America
- Note
- In the case of the advertising collections, the Government Department War Cabinet" has also been applied to materials released under the imprint of "HM Government" during the period 1945-1951."
- Pages
- 1
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Industry Infrastructure Manufacturing Materials
