[Citizen Tom Paine]

At that time Pennsylvania produced more steel that any country in the world. We also had the richest iron ore deposits going in the Mesabi range in Wisconsin. They are virteally all gone now.

At nighn, Bessemer converters lit the sky up over Youngstown, Ohio every night producing steel. Now there is not one Bessemer converter operating there.

[caltaxed]

It takes seven years to build a single US aircraft carrier today.

[nascarnation]

Now there is not one Bessemer converter operating there

or anywhere else, right? maybe some 3rd world locations?

[hinckley buzzard]

Mesabi Range is in Minnesota.

[goat granny]

in reality, WW 2 is what actually got us out of the depression. Men in the military, women in the work force, after the war, women went back to caring for her family and there were plenty of jobs for the military men coming home. Under the GI bill, education was available, and FHA made it possible to buy homes..