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economic, business, and finance issues – 1930s (archives)
economic, business, and finance issues – 1940s (archives)
1940: Banks And Banking
1940: Business
1940: Child Labor
1940: Federal Trade Commission
1940: Income In The United States
1940: Income Taxation
1940: International Banking And Finance
1940: Labor Arbitration
1940: Labor Legislation
1940: Manufacturing Industries
1940: National Debt
1940: Sales Tax
1940: Taxation
1940: Unemployment Insurance
1940: Wages, Hours And Working Conditions
1940: World Economics
1941: Banks And Banking
1941: Business
1941: Child Labor
1941: Federal Trade Commission
1941: Financial Review
1941: Income Taxation
1941: Income, National
1941: International Banking And Finance
1941: Labor Arbitration
1941: Labor Legislation
1941: Manufacturing Industries
1941: National Debt
1941: Sales Tax
1941: Taxation
1941: Unemployment Insurance
1941: Wages, Hours And Working Conditions
1941: World Economics
1942: Banks And Banking
1942: Business
1942: Child Labor
1942: Federal Trade Commission
1942: Financial Review
1942: Income Taxation
1942: Income, National
1942: International Finance And Economics
1942: Labor Arbitration
1942: Labor Legislation
1942: National Debt
1942: Sales Tax
1942: Taxation
1942: Unemployment Insurance
1942: Wages, Hours And Working Conditions
1943: Business
1943: Child Labor
1943: Federal Trade Commission
1943: Financial Review
1943: Income Taxation
1943: Income, National
1943: Labor Arbitration
1943: Labor Legislation
1943: National Debt
1943: Sales Tax
1943: Taxation
1943: Unemployment Insurance
1943: Wages, Hours, And Working Conditions
1944: Child Labor
1944: Federal Trade Commission
1944: Financial Review
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1944: Income, National
1944: Labor Arbitration
1944: Labor Legislation
1944: National Debt
1944: Sales Tax
1944: Taxation
1944: Unemployment Insurance
1944: Wages, Hours And Working Conditions
1945: Business Review
1945: Child Labor
1945: Consumer Credit
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1946: Banking, Domestic
1946: Business Review
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1946: Consumer Credit
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1946: Income And Product, National
1946: Industrial Reconversion
1946: Interest Rates
1946: International Finance
1946: Labor And Employment
1946: National Debt, The
1946: Retail Business
1946: Taxes And Taxation
1947: Banking, Domestic
1947: Business Review
1947: Child Labor
1947: Consumer Credit
1947: Cost Of Living
1947: Federal Trade Commission
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1947: Interest Rates
1947: International Banking
1947: Labor And Employment
1947: National Debt
1947: Retail Business
1947: Taxes And Taxation
1948: Banking, Domestic
1948: Business Review
1948: Child Labor
1948: Consumer Credit
1948: Cost Of Living
1948: Federal Trade Commission
1948: Income And Product, National
1948: Interest Rates
1948: International Banking
1948: International Trade
1948: Labor And Employment
1948: National Debt
1948: Retail Business
1948: Taxes And Taxation
1949: Banking, Domestic
1949: Business Review
1949: Child Labor
1949: Consumer Credit
1949: Cost Of Living
1949: Federal Trade Commission
1949: Income And Product, National
1949: Interest Rates
1949: International Banking
1949: International Trade
1949: Labor And Employment
1949: National Debt
1949: Retail Business
1949: Taxes And Taxation
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1948: Consumer Credit
Consumer credit continued to expand throughout 1948, but was noticeably slowed up when the government, through the Federal Reserve Board, imposed restrictions by reinstating Regulation W on September 20. This was the control that served so effectively during the war to curb installment and other...
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