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Financing Industrial Expansion for War: The Origin of the Defense Plant Corporation Leases1

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One of the recent tendencies in the United States has been the movement away from private methods of finance to finance through government agencies, a trend that has been particularly noticeable during periods of national catastrophe such as wars and depressions. In these periods we have seen, in addition to other sources of government financing, the use of the War Finance Corporation during World War I and the use on a far larger scale of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the Great Depression and World War II.During World War II two thirds of a total expenditure for industrial facilities of approximately $25 billion was directly financed by the government. In contrast, during the three-year period of 1917–1919, only about one tenth of the $6 billion in new facilities under construction was directly financed by the government.

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  • White, Gerald T., 1949. "Financing Industrial Expansion for War: The Origin of the Defense Plant Corporation Leases1," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 9(2), pages 156-183, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:9:y:1949:i:02:p:156-183_06
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    1. Andrew Bossie, 2020. "Monetary and fiscal interactions in the USA during the 1940s," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 14(1), pages 61-103, January.

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