Allies Quote by Anonymous

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States,…

— John Boyd Orr

“Britain’s industry was kept buoyant by the decline of Empire, for as countries gained their independence they sought arms to enhance their status and…

— Andrew Feinstein

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

— Smedley Butler

At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply…

— Jacque Fresco

When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small…

— E. Joseph Cossman

2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented…

— George Scratchley Brown

“1870, Britain produced 32 percent of all the manufactured goods in the world, followed by the United States at 23 percent and Germany at 13 percent.”

— Thomas Sowell

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million…

— Saul David

This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much…

— W. Averell Harriman

“In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and…

— Marc Levinson

Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing…

— Arundhati Roy

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a…

— Anonymous