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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (482359)5/21/2009 12:31:10 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1574000
 
However, out of the war emerge some defense industries.......companies like Lockheed, Boeing, General Dynamics etc.

Defense contractors where very large during WWII. Boeing probably produced more military aircraft during WWII than in the entire period since, certain than in any similar sized period after WWII. Almost 13,000 B-17s where produced. Compare to 744 B-52s, and about 2000 B-47s (and far fewer of later bombers, although they didn't come from Boeing, 100 B-1Bs and 21 B-2s), 816 KC-97s, 803 KC-135s, 68 E-3s. (I didn't count the about 4K B-29s since they where produced both during and after the war but most of them where built during the war).

Give me a break. Like most defense contractors, Boeing's employment dropped significantly after WW II. It did not begin to grow again until it got into commercial aircraft in a big way.
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