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...outlined the part they were to play. Franklin Roosevelt had just decided to add 12,000 new bombers to the air expansion program-for parts of which automen would receive $500,000,000 in orders by next spring. With him Commissioner Knudsen had brought blueprints to help them retool their plants, prepare to mass-produce wing, fuselage and tail assemblages. If they could handle the job, said Mr. Knudsen, automakers would get one quarter of the entire rearmament fund alloted to aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRCRAFT: Big Bill Speaks | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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