MBA备考商务英语泛读文选全集(3)
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MBA备考商务英语泛读文选3
The New Deal Years
When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president of the United
States in 1933, the countrys economic system was
paralyzed. One fourth of U.S. workers were unemployed,
production of goods and services was down by half, and
corporate profits were off by two thirds. Roosevelt made
Americas economic prob-lems the focal poin .for
both .domestic and foreign policies.The policies of his New
Deal centered in two areas: unemployment and banking reform.
Solving the unemployment problem proved very difficult.
Roosevelt proposed, and Congress passed, a series of acts
dubbed the alphabet acts because everyone referred to them
by their initials. The National Industrial Recovery Act
(NIRA), for example, brought labor, management, and
consumers together to set prices and wages and to regulate
output. The New Deal policies of Roosevelt seemed to work;
but 20 percent of the work force, or almost 9 million
Americans, was still unemployed in 1939.
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