The Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II

Notes

Notes chApter one 1. Keith E. Eiler, Mobilizing America: Robert P. Patterson and the War Effort, 1940–1945 (Ithaca, Ny: Cornell University Press, 1997), 43, 44; Donald M. Nelson, Arsenal of Democracy: The Story of American War Production (New york: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946), 30; Jerome B. Cohen, Japan’s Economy in War and Reconstruction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1949), 288; Harry C. Thomson and Lida Mayo, The United States Army in World War II; The Technical Services. The Ordnance Department: Equipment and Supply (Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1960), 1–2; Richard J. Overy, War and Economy in the Third Reich (New york: Clarendon Press, 1964), 280. 2. Thomson and Mayo, The Ordnance Department: Equipment and Supply, 25, 43. 3. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, 1975), 716; Alfred P. Sloan Jr., My Years with General Motors (Garden City, Ny: Doubleday, 1963), 214. 4. Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill, Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933–1962 (New york: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962), 175–77, 281; David Farber, Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 220–27. 5. Justus D. Doenecke, Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939– 1941 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). 6. Ibid., 1–8; Wayne S. Cole, America First: The Battle against Intervention, 1940–1941 (Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1953), 11–14; Wayne S. Cole, Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle against American Intervention in World War II (New york: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 41–42, 74, 115, 132–33, 142–53. 7. Doenecke, Storm on the Horizon, 59–61; Richard M. Ketchum, The Borrowed Years, 1938– 1941: America on Its Way to War (New york: Random House, 1989), 127–28, 228, 567. 8. Irving Brinton Holley Jr., Buying Aircraft: Materiel Procurement for the Army Air Forces (Washington , DC: Department of the Army, 1964), 83. 9. John E. Wiltz, In Search of Peace: The Senate Munitions Inquiry, 1934–36 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963), 122–26; Melvin I. Urofsky, Big Steel and the Wilson Administration: A Study in Business-Government Relations (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969), 229–31; Paul A. C. Koistinen, Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920–1939 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998), 253–60. The most 214 notes to chApter one detailed study of World War I profiteering is found in Stuart D. Brandes, Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997). 10. R. Elberton Smith, The Army and Economic Mobilization: United States Army in World War II (Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1991), 63–64; Eiler, Mobilizing America, 67, 198. 11. Chrysler Corporation War Records, vol. 22, “General, 1938–1941” and vol. 23, “General, 1942,” Chrysler Corporate Archives, Detroit, Michigan (hereafter CCA). 12. Nelson, Arsenal of Democracy, 225–26. For more information on this plant, see Saginaw Steering Gear Division, General Motors Corporation, Out of the Valley to Victory (Saginaw, MI: Seemann and Peters, 1943), n.p. 13. Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 Volume, War—And Aid to Democracies (New york: Macmillan, 1941), 202–3, 234; Nelson, Arsenal of Democracy, 88–89. 14. Norman Beasley, Knudsen: A Biography (New york: McGraw-Hill, 1947), 236; Robert C. Albright, “New Board Will Gear U.S. Industry to Defense Needs: Seven-Member Commission Taps Nation’s vast Resources as Speed Marks U.S. Rearmament,” Washington Post, 2 June 1940, B3. 15. James J. Flink, “William Signius Knudsen,” in George S. May, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: The Automobile Industry, 1920–1980 (New york: Brucolli Clark Layman, 1989), 265–68. 16. Ibid., 269–78. 17. Beasley, Knudsen, 230, 234–37. 18. Ibid., 238, 243–46; William S. Knudsen to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 5 June 1940, box 2, folder 32, series I, Knudsen Collection, National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan (hereafter NAHC). Beasley erroneously dates this letter 2 June 1940. 19. Eiler, Mobilizing America, 486–87. 20. Beasley, Knudsen, 248–50, 271–72, 276. 21. Ibid., 251, 259–60. 22. Gerald T. White, Billions for Defense: Government Financing by the Defense Plant Corporation during World War II (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1980), 4–10; Paul A. C. Koistinen, Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940...