"The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe"

[pilotyip]

looks like we need another World War II to boost Detroit and America's economy

No just turn the ingenuity of the US loose. FDR Turned to Detroit to solve problems not worrying about how people felt about it. FDR, though he disliked the necessity of businessmen into government, fearing they would trample on the social and political achievements of the New Deal, was aware that the old line Departments and Agencies lacked the imagination and capacity for the swift and intelligent improvisation which the mobilization effort demanded” He knew the liberals were incapable of thinking big.
Becoming the Arsenal
M. Carew pg 67