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Transcripts For MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240707



for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need to build a whole bunch of new stuff. you need a whole bunch of new or retooled or expanded facilities to build that stuff. you need a lot of people to work in those facilities, so they need a place to live. the math is simple, right? on paper, that s all very rational. that all just follows. it s very logistical. it makes sense. in practice, though, it was its own kind of war. while detroi ....

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Transcripts For MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240707



uniforms, everything. the government opened defense production facilities all over the country. factories, they either retooled the existing ones, or they built new ones. and in some places, there were particularly large defense production facilities, either a large number for retooled plants, or a bunch of new ones that were built. one of the things that emerged quickly as a bottleneck for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian use in detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you ....

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