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America built an astounding number of weapons and built them faster than they enemy could destroy them.
Key point: Some of Berlin s weapons may have been better, but they could not replace their losses. During the war, America built 86,000 tanks and 297,000 aircraft.
“We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production, the like of which he had never seen, nor dreamed possible.”
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The above quote is attributed to William Knudsen, president of General Motors and Roosevelt’s wartime director of production management, a man who was intimately involved in the massive production drive that made the U.S. military the best supplied military in the world during World War II.
original domestic policy-relateed research and big think books of which our current speaker, arthur herman, is the author of the book that is the summit of today s subject of today s discussion, freedoms forge, clearly is one of. the 2012 election is, in many ways, a debate over the 1932 election. should we continue or extend the legacy of franklin delano roosevelt in establishing the federal government as one of the preeminent directors if not the preeminent director of american economic life, or should we embrace the creative animal spirits of free enterprise capitalism and trust more to ourselves and more to the great men and women who fuel our nation s economy and whose ideas and innovations change our lives? when we look to the future of american public policy. be economists and historians have debated whether or not roosevelt s move in his signature domestic accomplishment, the new deal, actually helped or hurt, whether or not it prolonged the great depression or