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Show THIS BUSINESS ft ' " i Wshr "" SUSAN THAYER 4-U1 I've Just come across a fascinating fascinat-ing historical account of American industries in former wars. J Strangely, it had never occurred to me that many of the manufacturing manufac-turing firms that are pouring overseas ov-erseas an unending stream of armaments arm-aments also helped this country win its earlier battles. During the Revolution, for example, ex-ample, fierce fighting raged over our colonial ironworks but they managed to turn out an uninterrupted uninter-rupted stream of muskets and cannon. Even then Yankee "know-how" "know-how" was working. Scrap of every ev-ery kind, even clock weights, was converted into bullets. One great company has made gunpowder for every conflict since 1802. A unit of one of our vast modern steel plants supplied cannon to Gen. Washington's forces. for-ces. Shipyards of this same company com-pany now owns built ironclad monitors of the Civil War and Admiral Ad-miral Dewey's flagship, Olympia. There's a well known manufac-turering manufac-turering firm now in war work, that actually was founded by Paul Revere. They rolled the copper sheets for the U.S.S. Constitution. Another famous name in industry, helping to equip the greatest me-chanizde me-chanizde army in history, turned out much of the transportation eqipment used in the Civil war. It's a thrilling saga this story of how American industry has helped America stay free! And every time, new 'skills that developed devel-oped under pressure of war are translated into progress when peace comes. . |