TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, September 12, 1945. Letter to Daniel Bloomfield, director of the Boston Conference on Distribution. In part: “I fully appreciate the unusual importance this year of the deliberation of the Boston Conference on Distribution…circumstances this year clearly point to the need for a critical re-examination of the ways and means and the costs, of distributing goods and services from producer to consumer. The techniques of selling and service need polishing up after having been laid away for more important things during the war, and intensive market exploitation must now take the place of quota-allocation of goods to buyers…Whatever you can spell out as to how these objectives may be attained will be a contribution toward better standards of living, fuller employment, and the public good.” In fine condition. World War II had come to a close just ten days earlier, when the Japanese officially signed the surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. As American industry had dedicated itself almost entirely to war production, Truman looked for solutions to transition back to production of consumer goods. Ultimately the postwar American economy experienced phenomenal growth and saw a drastic expansion of the middle class. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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