"The result [of giving American business leaders the lead in key decisions for mobilization] was that by December 1941, when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, the U.S. was already poised to outproduce Nazi Germany in war materiel. By 1944 American industry was producing eight aircraft carriers a month, 50 merchant ships a day, and a war plane every five minutes. Two-thirds of all the war materiel used by all the Allies in World War II came from America - as did the most powerful innovative weapon in history, the atomic bomb."
- Arthur Herman, "The World War II Lesson for DOGE" in The Wall Street Journal, December 19, 2024
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