War Production Quotes
Many scientists were reluctant to work on instruments of death and destruction. Roosevelt and others were so successful that virtually every major scientist in America worked on the war effort including the development of the atomic bomb.
In the American Civil War, civilian weapons production first became a factor in the outcome of a war. In WWI, it became a significant factor. And in WWII it was THE MAJOR factor when America became the “Arsenal of Democracy”. At one point, a single Ford factory was producing an entire B24 (our heaviest) bomber every single hour on a 24/7 schedule—over 600 every month.
The manpower shortage was really strained as most young men were in military service. Factories all over America were expanding to meet the wartime production goals. The Sexism that had permeated the offices and factories before the war gave way to necessity, and men and women alike were relocating to where the critical jobs were. Housing was a serious problem and the government set up housing bureaus which would provide housing services at no charge to new workers. There were some conservatives who did not want the government in the Real Estate Brokerage business, but by and large these were accepted. After the war, the government went out of the business, and real estate was again exclusively in the private sector.
participating in the First World War This was not just a WWII happening. The process rally started in WWI.
He has exactly right, but at the time there was much isolationist sentiment arguing against getting involved in “foreign wars”. To obtain the full industrial power of the United States, most of the manufacturing capability and raw materials would have to be taken from the civilian sector and devoted to military production. That would take men like Nelson, but primarily President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who would persuade the American people to make the immediate sacrifice to insure the future. See {642356} as an example.
Monnet began to use the exact phrase in Mid 1940. He almost certainly had read Sherwood’s earlier, similar phrase {624748}. However so had Presidential Aid Harry Hopkins who thought that it would be a good phrase for President Roosevelt to use to “brand” the activity of the United States. So diplomatically, Monnet was asked not to use the phrase any more, and he acceded to the request. At the end of the year, in a famous radio address, FDR used the phrase {624747}, and it has been associated with him ever since.
