标题: US Industrial Might in World War II [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-28-2012 11:10 标题: US Industrial Might in World War II American business in wartime | Democracy’s Arsenal; The 'dollar-a-year' men and what they achieved. Economist, May 19, 2012 http://www.economist.com/node/21555532
(book review on Arthur Herman, Freedom’s Forge; How American business produced victory in World War II. Random House, 2012)
Quote:
"By the end of 1942 America’s output of war materiel already exceeded the combined production of the three Axis powers, Germany, Italy and Japan. By 1944 its factories built a plane every five minutes while its shipyards launched 50 merchant ships a day and eight aircraft carriers a month.
This Economist article describes him as "a General Motors executive." Mr Knudsen was not the top leader. See
GM's History of CEOs. Los Angeles Times, date unknown. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-hy-gm-ceos-pg,0,477093.photogallery
(first CEO: Alfred P Sloan Jr (1875-1966; CEO 1923-1946))
(b) Henry J Kaiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Kaiser
(1882-1967; known as the father of modern American shipbuilding, he established the Kaiser Shipyard [in Richmond, California, part of San Francisco Bay Area] which built Liberty ships during World War II [at a rate of 45-day construction time for a cargo ship])
(c)
(i) Utica, New York http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utica,_New_York
(county seat of Oneida County; Utica, Tunisia, the ancient Carthaginian city)
(ii) Utica, Tunisia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utica,_Tunisia
(an ancient city [now ruins] northwest of Carthage near the outflow of the Medjerda River into the Mediterranean Sea, traditionally considered to be the first colony founded by the Phoenicians in North Africa; "Utica is from the Phoenician meaning 'old [town],' contrasting with the later colony "Carthage," meaning 'new town'" in Phoenician also)
(d) Bechtel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel
(the largest construction and engineering company in the United States; founded in 1898 by Warren A Bechtel; Headquarters San Francisco; From 1933 to 1936, Bechtel helped build the 4.5 mile (7 km) long San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge; In 1937, Bechtel joined forces with John McCone's engineering company to form an engineering/construction firm called the Bechtel-McCone Company)
(e) gawp (vi): "chiefly British : GAWK" www.m-w.com