Word: outbuildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reasons. The chief reason the U.S. could thus strut its new-won power was that it could outbuild Japan, in ships, planes and weapons. In 28 months, while its air and naval power cut big hunks out of Japanese sea might, the U.S. Navy had grown to be the greatest sea-air force in the world...
...millions and billions by 1943" keynote of America's war is based in turn on tales of our immense store of natural and industrial resources. Given time enough, the story goes, we can outbuild and outshoot any nation on earth. But reassuring though it sounds, it has a catch, in the form of several ignored but potent factors. First, we ignored the possibilities of a Japanese East Indies or a German Empire. Second, we ignored that Axis technological methods have left us behind in many fields. The third, and most correctible factor is that, through mere inertia in American industry...
...actualities of production also favor the U.S. The U.S. can outbuild Japan time & time again in aircraft or ships. But the drain of supplies to other allied countries cuts down this margin...
...whole foundation on which the security of both our countries has rested for 120 years will have disappeared. . . . Moreover, if Hitler beats us, the totalitarian powers will possess airplane building facilities, naval and shipbuilding dockyards and industrial resources all over Europe ... which will enable them vastly to outbuild your own defensive preparations. . . . Many people in the U. S. believe that somehow or other, even if Great Britain is invaded and over run, the British Navy will cross the Atlantic and still be available, through Canada or otherwise, as part of your own defensive system. I hope you are not building...