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Freedom's Forge

How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

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• p003 PROLOGUE

• p014 Ch01 THE GENTLE GIANT

• p009 Henry Morgenthau George Catlett Marshall

• p020 Model T traversed the line start to finish in 90 minutes, 500 per day

  • When William S. Knudsen arrived at Ford Detroit in 1913

  • 10 hours per day, 6 days per week, so 50 cars per hour, 3000 cars per week
  • 4500 hours of work in 60 hours, ...
  • Soon to 8 hours per day, 5 days per week

• p029 Knudsen showed a muffler with two minute assembly time to purchasing agent Donald O'Keefe, turned down

• p029 Two weeks later, Knudsen is Chevrolet VP
• p031 Knudsen: Speed produces nothing, accuracy is the only straight line to production. From workshop mentality to modern manufacturing. Sales went from 72K to almost 250K om 1922
• p032 Knudsen: "I vanr vun for vun!" (Chevrolet sales up to Ford sales)
• p033 "flexible mass production", constant modification and change
• p034 1927 Chevy forced Ford to replace Model T with Model A, stopping production for almost a year
• p035 Chevy outsold Ford almost every year until 1986

• p037 Ch02 THE MASTER BUILDER

• p052 Hoover Dam The Six Companies

• p058 Ch03 THE WORLD OF TOMORROW

• p066 Ch04 GETTING STARTED

• p085 Ch05 CALL TO ARMS

• p088 instead of P-40 fighter copies, North American Aviation "Dutch" Kindleberger offers better in 120 days, delivers P-51 Mustang in 102 days

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• p130 Ch07 SHIPS, STRIKES, AND THE BIG BOOK

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• p176 Ch10 SHIPS FOR LIBERTY

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• p209 Ch12 STEEL MEN AND CAST-IRON CHARLIE

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• p334 Conclusion RECKONING

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• p069 Alistair Cooke 2006 The American Home Front

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