industries
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To finance the initiative, he invoked the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law that grants the president broad authority to support industries considered vital to national security.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
The funds will be made available through the Defense Production Act, which was enacted in 1950 and gives the US president emergency power over domestic industries.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
These kinds of commoditized industries tend to succumb to price wars: The lowest-cost producer “wins” by destroying the entire industry’s margins.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
The result is one of the strangest custody battles to ever roil the aerospace and museum industries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Like so many workers in so many different crafts and industries throughout the country, the nation’s steel workers had expected that their wages and working conditions would improve once the Great War was over.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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