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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman (2013-07-02)


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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman (2013-07-02)


Lessons from Kaiser the highwayman

1. Correct Estimate of time and resources
Kaiser could estimate how long it would take to cut a road and how many people.
2. Then assign teams of workers for the morning.
3. Look for technical advance that makes your work easier and cheaper - eg adding rubber tires to wheelbarrows
4. Replacing engines on caterpillar with diesel engines for cost.
5. Le Tourneau - a mover and a shaker
6. gas tax for highway construction

Getting America moving on covid-19

Non essential manufacturing stopped
Introduction of V8
How ship building is different from other construction

4.24.20

planes to be made were 5 times Army corps used at that time. Do you think it makes for a good story to motivate people that we need to make 5 times more. Mind the gap, its large? or we have 1/5th of what we need, lets get to the 4/5th?

Give me 48 hours, let me see what my engineers can come up with
rifles packed in Cosmoline

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