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Berkhout, Daniel J.

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The Military-Industrial Complexes of WWII: Research Facility Expansion and Product Diversification at B.F. Goodrich and the Largest U.S. Industrial Manufacturers, 1941-1960.

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Title/Author:	The Military-Industrial Complexes of WWII: Research Facility Expansion and Product Diversification at B.F. Goodrich and the Largest U.S. Industrial Manufacturers, 1941-1960./
Author:	Berkhout, Daniel J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	530 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-12A(E).
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10620837
ISBN:	9780355273045

The Military-Industrial Complexes of WWII: Research Facility Expansion and Product Diversification at B.F. Goodrich and the Largest U.S. Industrial Manufacturers, 1941-1960.
Berkhout, Daniel J.

The Military-Industrial Complexes of WWII: Research Facility Expansion and Product Diversification at B.F. Goodrich and the Largest U.S. Industrial Manufacturers, 1941-1960. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 530 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The George Washington University, 2017.

In his 1961 farewell address to the nation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower explained how a "technological revolution during recent decades" was "largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture." As a result, this dissertation considers how and why post-WWII industrial research became, according to Eisenhower, "more formalized, complex, and costly." The origins and characteristics of a paradigm shift in how American corporations conducted research are identified by comparing changes in R&D at the B.F. Goodrich Company from 1941 through 1960 to similar developments at the 200 largest U.S. industrial manufacturers in 1948.

ISBN: 9780355273045Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

The Military-Industrial Complexes of WWII: Research Facility Expansion and Product Diversification at B.F. Goodrich and the Largest U.S. Industrial Manufacturers, 1941-1960.
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