To: robert b furman who wrote (2526 ) 1/5/2015 11:32:00 AM From: Kirk © Respond to Excellent! For awhile I thought I was the only one who would point this out.The U.S prospered in the 1950's because we were the only industrial country that had not had their lands destroyed by WW II. Also, we build huge manufacturing plants and trained workers, including women, to build war machines. Soldiers returned to man these factories that were ALREADY PAID FOR.GM was a bloated and over rated success story, that was about to enter a multi decade decline as the new plants reconstructed in the war zones built a better product - which was mostly ignored by the arrogance of upper managements with in the US OEM manufactures. I remember in the 1980s we had to take all sorts of Quality Control classes to learn how the Japanese turned from making junk in the 50s and 60s into World Class Products that nobody could touch. HP was not arrogant like GM, IBM, Kodak, etc... so we did that and became BETTER than the Japanese by recognizing we had issues even if we had leading products.
