The world, trying in various ways and with varying degrees of sympathy to understand the U.S., noted one general fact: no other nation had recovered so successfully from the war or had so much material reason for hope in the future.
Last week the Committee for Economic Development proudly estimated that 52,000,000 Americans are already back at civilian jobs; that only 2,000,000 are unemployed; that reconversion is 90% complete in many parts of the country; that payrolls and individual earnings are only slightly below the wartime peak (see BUSINESS). The nation was stuffed with yeasty potential. Vogue welcomed nylons back as...
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