World War II, every mention
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The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:41 David Rosenthal Even though we're in the post-World War II era, these first few years, five years after the war, the install base of TV was just starting to roll out across America.
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:17:40 David Rosenthal Is a part of the story that we basically haven't talked about since World War II is international.
- ▶ 3:27:34 Ben Gilbert 60% in post World War II America.
- ▶ 3:29:22 Ben Gilbert Three, World War II, and having a unbelievably paved path for them to expand globally, and then also kind of shut the door behind them on global expansion.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 47:40 David Rosenthal The first is an article that he reads in Scientific American that states that starting with the GI Bill after World War II, the rate of college education in America went from two percent of high school graduates to 60% of high school…
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 13:57 David Rosenthal And my understanding from our research is that the Robusta market really developed, as you say, with the instant coffee market, and that was kind of a product of World War II, right?
- ▶ 14:18 Howard Schultz I mean, it was just fuel, and bitter, acidic, and yeah, and that's, I think World War II and the GIs were kind of the impetus for that kind of quality coffee, or not quality coffee, to exist and have any kind of run after the war.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:29 David Rosenthal Yeah, alright, so a minute ago I was talking about the two problems that America and its allies have at the end of World War II.
- ▶ 33:46 Ben Gilbert Yeah, and the war we're coming out of is World War II, but of course the Cold War against the Russians is just starting.
- ▶ 33:58 David Rosenthal I think for a lot of people, the stakes and the pressure and the worry about the Cold War was greater than World War II.
- ▶ 34:09 Ben Gilbert When the Americans entered World War II, we had reason to believe that we could come in and win.
- ▶ 1:01:23 David Rosenthal So if we rewind back to World War II.
- ▶ 1:01:26 David Rosenthal One thing we kind of mentioned here now, as we were talking about the U-II and the Russians tracking it on radar, but we didn't talk about during World War II, was the importance of radar.
- ▶ 1:01:37 David Rosenthal Now, so much of World War II was an air war, both in Europe and then especially in the Pacific.
- ▶ 1:01:50 David Rosenthal Yes, there was lots of land-based fighting and tanks and all that stuff, but World War II was the first real air war.
- ▶ 1:02:03 David Rosenthal Now, during World War II, where was all of the US and Allied radar work and research being done?
- ▶ 1:05:33 David Rosenthal It's all thanks to Terman and World War II and his experience at the Radiolab.
- ▶ 1:05:42 David Rosenthal He knows how important this work is that it was during World War II, and he knows it's just as if not more important during the Cold War.