Dust jacket condition: No Jacket. Short tear to the cloth at head of spine along front cover. 250 + 260 pages. From the Introduction: "As CITIZENS of a country at war, we face a new and radically different kind of home life. Material accessories to the placid and comfortable ways of living to which we have become accustomed are progressively limited. The nation needs, and must employ in this war effort, a considerable part of the machinery and labor ordinarily devoted to producing for all of us the things that make for the more abundant life. That machinery and labor must be quickly turned from construction to destruction, from the building up of our comfort and convenience to the tearing down of the aggressor?s efforts to impose upon us the domination of his will and the rapacious demands of a conqueror. We are learning by uncomfortable experience the extent of our peacetime dependence upon specialization and upon the widespread allocation of tasks to meet community needs. We have become accustomed, as individuals in a closely knit civilization, to pursue our specialized labors and to share our products, through the exchange medium of money, with other individual specialists like ourselves. We have produced one thing, broadly speaking, and have bought all else that we needed or could afford. War changes all this. The man who has been making our shoes is now making leather goods for the army; he upon whom we depended for our automotive supplies is now building tanks and planes; he who used to bring us our tea, sugar, spices from abroad is now bearing supplies to our outpost forces; the factories that recently made nails or pipe or hea ting boilers are now turning out bombs or guns or armor plate. . . . Seller Inventory # 059900

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Title: War-Time Guide Book for the Home - Make It ...

Publisher: Popular Science Publishing

Publication Date: 1942

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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