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A disjointed economy was kept from runaway inflation. Franklin Roosevelt set his production sights high, but they were met. There was bumbling, confusion, a spate of name-calling.
Interest in those prices led to my investigation of July’s inflation rate of 8.5 percent. ... “Former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt used rationing in the early 1940s.
In the wake of a highly publicized White House signing ceremony marking passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, President Biden has launched what he and Democrats hope will be a successful … ...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first inaugurated as president in 1933, he was facing “a nation on the brink,” said Jason Scott Smith, a history professor at the University of New Mexico ...
1945: Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, GA on April 12, from a cerebral hemorrhage. Harry Truman becomes President. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (1884-1962) : She married Franklin Roosevelt on March 17, 1905.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security bill into law on this day in history, Aug. 14, ... Her first check was for $22.54, the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $420.15 today.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.