Thursday, July 07, 2011

Permanent

"The revulsion against war ... will be an almost insuperable obstacle for us to overcome. For that reason, I am convinced that we must begin now to set the machinery in motion for a permanent wartime economy."
--Charles E. Wilson(1886-1972) President of General Electric (1940-42, 1945-50),
head of the Office of Defense Mobilization in 1951,
US Secretary of Defense (1953-57)
Source: internal memo, 1944

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