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Exactly correct. Good time to skim https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run. Years of startup problems but when i
by mulmen 2y ago
Exactly correct. Good time to skim https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run.
Years of startup problems but when it finally started humming they were building a B-24 every 63 minutes! In the meantime existing factories were winning the war.
As Americans we tend to glorify the industrial feats of WWII but the US government used a very heavy hand to pull that off. Public-private partnership is the preferred euphemism today but essentially we were a socialist economy.
- bombcar 2y agoAt its peak, the US had 40% of GDP going into the war. Forty percent! Today the US military budget is 3.4% of GDP. Can you imagine it being ten times as much?