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Indeed, the best attribution gives it to Upton Sinclair in 1917 and likely reflected anxieties of WW1, not WW2; Sinclair wasn't saying it themselves, but attributing it to a government employee. This doesn't disconnect them, but shows that WW1 was the common factor.