Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury Department's mammoth wartime tax bill will go to the floor of the House by mid-July some $2.1 billions short of the Treasury's $8.7 billion goal. This appeared certain as the House Ways & Means Committee, after months of work on the biggest, toughest tax bill of all time, finally got the measure near the floor. Prodded into belated action by the President, wrestling with frayed tempers, the committee...
Before U.S. war production could get its second wind after Pearl Harbor, it needed factories, and it needed them fast. So industry turned to Albert Kahn. He had long been accustomed to break all records in factory construction. He had designed many a mammoth U.S. plant in a few days, had set it up and delivered the keys in a few months. Packard's architect for 39 years, Ford's for 34, Chrysler's for 17, General Motors' for 150-odd major plants, Kahn had done some two billion dollars' worth of industrial building...
Billy Mitchell wrote: "We must relegate armies and navies to a glass case in a dusty museum, which contains samples of the dinosaur, the mammoth and the cave bear...
...darkest blot on Britain's wartime industrial effort is easy to spot: though Great Britain is one of the world's mammoth coal producers, Great Britain is short of coal...
Designs were substantially frozen. Old-line yards learned new tricks-how to fabricate sections upside down in order to eliminate overhead welding. Bows and sterns of destroyers, weighing 30-40 tons apiece, were assembled in mammoth shops ashore, rolled out, lifted by giant cranes on to the ways. Chief limiting factor long since has been the ability of the rest of U.S. industry to produce raw materials and equipment fast enough to keep up with the shipyards...