World War II

“Basically as soon as you had the generation that lived through, you know, World War II die, we suddenly see a lot of sort of fascist or quasi-fascist movements coming back in a lot of the places where they were fighting”

“Volkswagen's come out and said between now and 2030, they'll lay off 50,000 people. This is unprecedented. They're closing plants for the first time since World War II.”

“The U.S. Was like, 40 plus percent of manufacturing capacity globally.”

“We were the 17th largest army in the world at the beginning of World War II, you know”

“In the end, 92% of all boats in World War II were Higgins boats.”

“In World War II, we direct commissioned a 100,000 people that look like what we now consider Detachment two-oh-one. Into the military.”

“I actually think that was a historical aberration. That was not the way it used to be. If you look at the 19 twenties, it was not like that. You look at the 19 thirties, it wasn't like that. The leave it to be for American dream that I think this individual is…”

“The reason this is not going to go the way World War II did is we don't have the industrial base we had in World War II.”

“This is the first torpedo kill since World War II.”

“1941 to 19 45, 64 portable bottling plants were sent to Asia, Europe, and North Africa, and the best estimates are that more than five billion bottles were distributed to troops during the war.”

“In the old model of World War II era, mass machinery and mass men to win wars like those days are long over.”

“We haven't really scaled aviation since World War II, and so it's going to be challenging to do that, but I think that's really the nut to crack that could determine the size of this”

“Technology alone does not win wars as Germany found out in world war II when they had great rocket bombs and jet fighters. And that did absolutely nothing to help them win.”

“Rolex did not focus on the American market until after World War II.”

“But if you look at their product catalogs, really up until World War II, ladies models outnumbered men's models two to one.”

“This is a very engineering-heavy industrial thing, and they didn't have to devote any resources to the war because they were completely neutral, and so all of their craftspeople and machinists and everything can keep making watches.”

“It was actually sold as a package containing three separate bars, each with a different flavor, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry, and due to restrictions during World War II, they had to cut production to just the chocolate version.”

“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.”

“I always use the example of Ken Burns, who makes the best documentaries about U.S. History. And the vast majority of what is in his documentaries are already known. A documentary about the Civil War or World War II. You know how it ends. You know what happened…”

“The most important person to keep alive for the American war effort was FDR. The second one was Vannevar Bush.”

“That's the kind of thing that I think every well-educated person should know, and yet the reality is that tiny percentages of current graduates of elite universities understand that question.”

“The key ideas arose in the special groups that were working for months and years with the problems, and they arose from nowhere else.”

“It was before, on World War II and World War I, the United States became the richest country because of the money it made before it entered the war.”

“The speed and sort of quality of execution of the American production machine at that time, you know, was light years beyond what we have today.”

“I grew up as a physicist thinking that, you know, physics really won World War II, but now that I'm a data scientist, I realize that it was actually data science that won World War II, but that story was classified for about 75 years, which is the story of how…”

“If you look at when a lot of the big dams were constructed in the Pacific Northwest they coincided with completion in the early, like, late thirties, early forties, and that really let, you know, put us in a position actually entering World War II where we had…”

“Farmers began using synthetic fertilizers after World War II, and the rate of increase just sort of skyrocketed after that, and that was sort of the beginning of the end of An equilibrium of the N-to-O budget, because once we started using much more synthetic …”

“You know, in the US really won World War II because of manufacturing and logistics, not because we necessarily had The shiniest missile or whatever.”

“The CDC says they have not seen murder, not murder rates, suicide rates this high since World War II.”

“And I think after the war, 48% of Tokyo was homeless. Like, half the population's homes had been destroyed.”

“A lot of crises in this world have been created by unbridled masculine traits. The alpha males in this world have created a lot of these crises. Extreme greed, extreme ambition. If you go to the source of any conflict in this world, whether the crisis that led…”

“Factory output is the lowest since World War II.”

“He fought in World War II And in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, and when he came home from the war, he found that of the six college roommates who started college together, and at the end of that first year they stopped out, it was called, to go to wa…”

“Those mentors get him a wartime contract working at Bell Laboratories that spares him from the draft.”

“We are now dealing with the largest single wave of human displacement around the world since World War II.”

“And if you look historically, every single presidency since World War II, something, some major policy crisis has happened in the first Six to 12 months of administration, usually unpredicted, not the thing you expected.”

“Since, when the United States starts as a republic, there have been four periods when the cost of money is below the rate of inflation for an extended period. The Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the last 10 years.”