Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1975 - 8/31/1975

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)


Profiteering in the United States During the Second World War

FAIN: FT-12570-75

Stuart D. Brandes
University of Wisconsin Colleges (Madison, WI 53715-2635)

During World War II the U.S. sought conflicting goals--to increase production vastly, and to restrain profits and to prevent swollen fortunes. Study will investigate the attempt to prevent unreasonable increases in wealth, or in other words, to achieve a humanistic goal in an era of massive technological change. Using a seldom used archival collection--corporate income tax returns retained by the State Archives of Wisconsin--P.I. will probe this conflict. Questions such as "What constitutes a 'reasonable' profit?" and the question of "profiteering" will be considered.