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THE sub-title of this volume is "The Story of General Electric in World War II", but in content it goes a good deal beyond this scope, and tends to become rather a history of the American war-machine, in which one sees at every turn the applications of the products of the General Electric Co. and the achievements of its scientific workers and engineers in dealing with new war problems. Although the author has avoided saturating his volume with statistics, one is struck by the immensity of the war output from the General Electric Group of factories with their 175,000 workers-output stated to be three times that previously attained.
Men and Volts at War
The Story of General Electric in World War II. By John Anderson Miller . (Whittlesey House Publication.) Pp. xi + 272 + 123 plates. (New York and London : McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1947.) 19s.
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FLEMING, A. Men and Volts at War. Nature 161, 113 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161113a0
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