On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 10:31:32 -0500, Ignoramus21254
wrote:

On 2017-09-10, Larry Jaques wrote:
Chrysler was given task of taking the hand-fit 40mm Bofors
anti-aircraft gun and mass producing it for WWII. They gave each
division a main part and used over 1,000 sub-contractors for the small
parts. Drawings were translated from Swedish so the shopmen could
read them. I imagine the entire process took months so our ships could
be better protected for the war. One aircraft carrier shot down 32
Japanese planes in under half an hour with these things. Thinking
back to my yout, I called these "pom-pom guns".
http://tinyurl.com/y9o6m25b

I love this video. Beautiful old style industrial inventiveness.

Yeah, try to get something like that done in today's litigious,
corporate-owned, regulation-laden, leftist-slowed theater.

"Well, if you can't guarantee a 7000% ROI within 3 weeks to our
stockholders, hire only women/transgenders/minorities, double their
pay, and guarantee that the output of their efforts will not be used
in a violent manner..."

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is
for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein