Download or read book Automobile Transportation in the War Effort written by Charles Lee Dearing and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Automobile Transportation in the War Effort written by Charles Lee Dearing and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Automobile Transportation in Defense Or War written by Brookings Institution and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Automobile Transportation in Defense Or War written by Brookings Institution and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Race Public Transit and Automobility in World War II Detroit written by Sarah K. Frohardt-Lane and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the decline of public transportation and rise of automobile use in the United States from the perspectives of social and environmental history. Through a case study of Detroit, the dissertation argues that World War II reinforced a culture of driving and set the stage for mass abandonment of public transportation in the post-war era. Even as wartime resource shortages exposed the vulnerabilities of car-centered societies, riders0́9 experiences on public transit and whites0́9 increasingly strong associations of streetcars and buses with black bodies worked against efforts to create long-term alternatives to private car use. Understanding the significance of World War II in shaping Americans0́9 mobility requires exploration of wartime transformations in everyday travel, as well as how government agencies and private corporations depicted these changes. The first part of this dissertation explores the effects of wartime resource shortages on Detroit0́9s public transit system. As buses and streetcars became extremely overcrowded, and service unreliable, racial tensions on board mounted. Public transit vehicles became common sites of racial conflicts. The second part of the dissertation examines automobility in the war and immediate postwar era. Government propaganda and private advertisements portrayed driving as fundamental to the American way of life and upheld the white male driver as a symbol of freedom for which the United States was fighting. At the same time, federal programs to limit rubber and gasoline use promoted driving as patriotic and essential to the war effort.

Download or read book Civilian War Transport written by United States. Office of Defense Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arsenal of Democracy written by Charles K. Hyde and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of the American automobile industry in producing vehicles, weapons, and other war products during World War II. Throughout World War II, Detroit's automobile manufacturers accounted for one-fifth of the dollar value of the nation's total war production, and this amazing output from "the arsenal of democracy" directly contributed to the allied victory. In fact, automobile makers achieved such production miracles that many of their methods were adopted by other defense industries, particularly the aircraft industry. In Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II,award-winning historian Charles K. Hyde details the industry's transition to a wartime production powerhouse and some of its notable achievements along the way. Hyde examines several innovative cooperative relationships that developed between the executive branch of the federal government, U.S. military services, automobile industry leaders, auto industry suppliers, and the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, which set up the industry to achieve production miracles. He goes on to examine the struggles and achievements of individual automakers during the war years in producing items like aircraft engines, aircraft components, and complete aircraft; tanks and other armored vehicles; jeeps, trucks, and amphibians; guns, shells, and bullets of all types; and a wide range of other weapons and war goods ranging from search lights to submarine nets and gyroscopes. Hyde also considers the important role played by previously underused workers-namely African Americans and women-in the war effort and their experiences on the line. Arsenal of Democracy includes an analysis of wartime production nationally, on the automotive industry level, by individual automakers, and at the single plant level. For this thorough history, Hyde has consulted previously overlooked records collected by the Automobile Manufacturers Association that are now housed in the National Automotive History Collection of the Detroit Public Library. Automotive historians, World War II scholars, and American history buffs will welcome the compelling look at wartime industry in Arsenal of Democracy.

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 2994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Passenger Automobile Rationing Regulations written by United States. Office of Price Administration and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Automobile Transportation in Defense Or War A Report Prepared by Wilfred Owen A Study Undertaken by the Brookings Institution written by Defense Transport Administration (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Transportation Inquiry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revenue Revisions 1947 48 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 2162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Relief of Dealers in Rationed Commodities written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Driving While Black African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights written by Gretchen Sorin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.

Download or read book Motor Transports in War written by Horace Wyatt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Motor Transports in War" by Horace Wyatt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Revenue Revision of 1942 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: