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    State intervention in the economy

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    Unprecedented action to manage Britain's wartime economy, using temporary state control of key sectors like railways rather than permanent nationalisation.
    AQA · 2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957 – The impact of war, 1914–1922 (study guide)

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