“It wasn't openly talked about very much, in the sense that people said they wanted to beat GB at this or that, but there would however be sidelong comparisons frequently in press commentary. And it was also pretty quickly obvious that no other countries were developing the kind of technological depth of industry as were the US and the UK.” PeopleKindSaidCountryWantedIndustryBeatsPressesDepthObviousDevelopingComparisonOther CountriesTechnologicalCommentary Author:Charles R. Morris
“The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.” WarPastBuildingIndustryBiggerPlantBritishScalesShipsCivil WarEndeavorSteel80sLarge Scale Author:Charles R. Morris
“The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.” YearsNaturalDevelopmentIndustryResourcesPlantOilThirtyIronGrainCoalParadigmThirty YearsNatural ResourcesProcessingTimberRefineryLard Author:Charles R. Morris