Word: firstism
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Model "X." Any lingering America-Firstism in Henry Ford's soul was bombed away at Pearl Harbor. Like any good Midwesterner, Henry Ford hit the roof when the U.S. was attacked. He called in his executives and said (weeks before the new War Production Board ordered auto production stopped): "We might as well quit making cars now." The same week he piled some of his aides into an automobile, made a tour of the whole Dearborn empire. At each building he discussed what was made there, at each building ordered: "Get a defense job going in there quick...
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