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Freedom's Forge

How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

  • Arthur Herman . 2012 . Bvt Lib 940.531 HER .


  • 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



  • p058 Ch03 THE WORLD OF TOMORROW


  • p066 Ch04 GETTING STARTED

















  • p069 Alistair Cooke 2006 The American Home Front

    • Forest Grove Library 940.5373 COO

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