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The Land of Know-how
Soule, George | December 24, 1949 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Backgrounds of Power. The Human Story of Mass Production," by Roger Burlingame. The U.S. is the storehouse of know-how and mass production. Many believe that it is the American mission to teach these arts of plenty to the less fortunate and backward nations. Roger Burlingame, who has written other books about invention, here undertakes to tell us how Americans got that way. But it was many a long year before mass production was used for much except firearms. In this violent and militaristic, nation the shining example of the discovery right up to the Civil War was the Colt revolver and mass-produced rifles.

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BACKGROUNDS of Power: The Human Story of Mass Production (Book); BOOKS; BURLINGAME, Roger; MASS production; FIREARMS; UNITED States
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