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Compare to Obama’s Executive Order 13603 of 2012

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowell/2012/04/29/obamas-plan-to-seize-control-of-our-economy-and-our-lives/

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According to

Freedom's Forge:

How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Arthur Herman

FDR already had a war production “czar,” as we would put it these days, in place since the Fall of France in May, 1940.

By the time of Pearl Harbor, the 18 months that said “czar,” GM executive and mass production genius Bill Knudsen, had predicted would be necessary to ramp up production, was over (what a coincidence!). Although the US had been ramping up production for a year and a half, it didn’t have much inventory of armaments on hand in Dec 1941 because all that production had been going to Britain to keep them from being beaten by Germany.

The business of building factories and equipping them with precision machine tools, and much of the training of workers, was already done when Pearl Harbor hit. Packard had had time to translate the British drawings for the production of the Merlin engine into American production practice, and so on. And that is why the US was able to produce war materiel so profligately from 1942 on.