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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 in 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

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
p103 Packard Model B first foot pedal speed control, Model C first steering wheel
p103 Jesse Vincent Liberty V-12 aircraft engine, also 4 wheel brakes, power brakes
- James Ward 1995 .. The Fall of the Packard Motor Company .. PSU Lib HD9710.U54 P39 1995
p105 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine Packard V-1650
- author mentions mechanical unit differences; Both UK and US used inches. 64ths to thousandths? Imperial to US gallons?
p105 Packard built 55,000 Merlin engines

p107 Ch06 ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY
p108 Republic Steel . Tom Girdler fought unions
p109 "I've never done it before, but I can do it again" Jesse Jones about Henry Kaiser
p111 Machine gun production tools, belt driven, 20 to 70 years old
p112 Knudsen: complete retooling of most American factories in 18 months
p112 first appropriation 4,247 aircraft, second appropriation 14,385 aircraft, Roosevelt expecting 50,000
p113 autos hard-cast dies, aircraft flexible soft dies
p114 Billy Mitchell staffer Jimmy Doolittle
p114 Car body makers Briggs Manufacturing , Fisher Body , Murray Corporation
p115 suspended annual automobile model changes when less than 25% of Americans supported war involvement
p115 General Motors made 10% of everything during WWII
p116 National Aviation Board decisions made by labor, government, business
p117 Reuther labor plan failed, car companies and unions made parts, not airplanes
p118 plenty of tasks and growth for subcontractors, the war would create more than half a million new businesses
p119 Kaiser and the Six Companies
p120 Eliot Janeway "a victory small enough to be organized is too small to be decisive"
p126 Lend-Lease
p129 novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald heart attack 1940 age 44, "the party is over"

p130 Ch07 SHIPS, STRIKES, AND THE BIG BOOK
p130 Kaiser Shipyard Richmond. experts predicted six months to build solid ground, Kaiser's men took three weeks, 300,000 cubic yards of rock and gravel
p132 "Oregon was settled by Missourians who didn't want to work" from Cooke, "Home Front"
- Bullshit. Cooke's Home Front describes life at home during the US Civil War. Not many Oregonians fought on either side of the Civil War; indeed, they formed militias in Oregon after US regulars (from the east) returned east to fight.
- https://depts.washington.edu/moving1/Oregon.shtml shows Oregon birthplace by decade; Missouri was 14% in 1850, 8% in 1860, 11% in 1870, 6% in 1880, 4.3% in 1900, 3.6% in 1910 (Illinois was 4.7%).
  - In 2022, Oregon was 45% Oregon-born, 14.9% California born, 5% Washington born, 3.5% Mexico born ... with Missouri in 19th place, 0.55%
  - Missouri was the start of the Oregon Trail; rail lines did not connect to Oregon to the east before 1883, or through California before 1887. Presumably many eastern US emigrants traveled to Oregon incrementally, spending a few years in Missouri, earning the money necessary for a wagon and supplies for an Oregon Trail wagon train.
p133 Henry Kaiser demanded much from son Edgar, made them an inseparable team
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p069 Alistair Cooke 2006 The American Home Front
- Forest Grove Library 940.5373 COO

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- .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
+ .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 in 1922