“The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.” KindImportantGamesNamesNaturalEconomyShareCenturyDevelopmentLateResourcesScalesManufacturingPrecisionNatural ResourcesProcessingLarge Scale Author:Charles R. Morris
“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
“We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.” KindLittlesIdeasBigsSidesCapabilityThings ChangeClumsy Author:Charles R. Morris
