The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and … - Charles R. Morris

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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Charles R. Morris

The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.

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