>It's been so long since I read it that I can remember no details nor
>correct labels, but I think long ago Chomsky wrote an analysis of a
>"National Security" document produced during the Truman administration
>that both laid out the contours of what came to be called the Cold War
>AND explicitly stated as one of its aims to "prime" the u.s. economy. In
>the late '40s there was really widespread fear -- both in public
>discussion and apparently in discussion in inner circles -- that the
>unemployment of the '30s would reoccur. It was not only Stalinists who
>thought that a "final slump" might be in the offing.
You must be thinking of NSC-68. Time was you'd have to go to the library to get a copy; now you can get one at <http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsc-hst/nsc-68.htm>.
Doug