The U.S. emerged from the war as the world's dominant producer of goods and services.

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Harry Truman, "the Commission on Wartime Contracting's reason for existence is to ensure that the government pays fair and reasonable prices for the goods and services that it buys to support our war fighters, " Thibault said.

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During the War, as productive output was diverted to the front, consumer goods were rationed back home and living standards fell.

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Even in the face of a Great Depression, a World War, a Cold War, recessions, oil shocks, inflation and unemployment, Congress never sought to require the purchase of wheat or war bonds, force a higher savings rate or greater consumption of American goods, or require every American to purchase a more fuel efficient vehicle.

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The army cannot fight the war without the right equipment and it is important to see the Americans coming up with the goods.

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The war has swung back and forth across Dinka land, killing off trade and access to essential goods and eroding their capacity to survive hard times.

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He started importing frozen foods before launching LuLu during the Gulf War, it went on to make its name as a provider of value-for-money goods.

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What your book illustrates so well is the difference between the kind of market that prevails in ordinary consumer goods such as automobiles, televisions or what-not and that prevailed in medicine until World War II, and the kind of market that now exists in the medical area.

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