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...reason for the great shift in legal opinions is that the economic yardsticks by which bigness is measured have been constantly changing. When the antitrust acts were first passed, few companies were in the $100 million class; today there are more than a dozen in the billion-plus class. Yet nobody raises a serious complaint that these companies are too big. They and other giants have proved that big companies can not only be more efficient in many industries (e.g., autos), but only big companies can afford the research often needed to develop new industries. For example, RCA spent...
...both together will not look big compared to the U.S. bill for World War III: $350 billion-plus. Peace between the U.S. and Russia is probable as long as the U.S. stays out in front. If Russia begins to catch up, the price of U.S. safety might go up at the rate of $15 billion a month...
...auto industry will sop up much more steel in producing cars than in war goods. G.M., and "C.E.," consumes only 75,000 tons a month today v. 250,000 in peacetime, even though its $4-billion-plus rate of annual production is more than twice its prewar peak...
...work (especially on the famous Boeing Flying Fortress), hotfooted after new business. When in May 1941 President Roosevelt announced the super-duper heavy-bomber program, Phil Johnson was right on the ball, gave Air Chief "Hap" Arnold a four-point program which is still the framework of the $3 billion-plus U.S. bomber program. Soon he had snagged a whacking slice of the whole schedule for his own bombers...