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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Richard E. Holl. From the Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press. 2005. Pp. x, 191. $75.00.
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| Just before World War II began, the U.S. spent barely a billion dollars a year on its military. In the year after Pearl Harbor, however, it allocated $3 billion for airplanes alone. Two years on, U.S. military spending reached seventy times prewar levels. |
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