Industrial Production and Marketing
1943; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/002224294300800104
ISSN1547-7185
Autores Tópico(s)Leadership and Management in Organizations
ResumoTIWTHEN THE little yellow anthropoids AV' Vof Japan dropped their bombs on Pearl Harbor, and took the Philippines, the Malayas, Sumatra and Java, they thought they had defeated America in the crucial and decisive battle of production. They knew we depended upon these countries, and upon the shipping lanes to China for dozens of critical materials vital to war production. They knew they were cutting us off from our normal sources of supply for rubber, tin, tungsten, chromium, tung oil, manila, and other materials essential to war production. They knew, and Hitler knew, that the greatest barrier to total, swift Axis victory was American production-production that was mounting-that was finding its way to Britain in ever-increasing quantities. By the simple process of cutting us off from our essential materials American production could be rendered impotent. They thought. Well, what happened?
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