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Launching a Thousand Ships: Entrepreneurs, War Workers, and the State in American Shipbuilding, 1940–1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Christopher James Tassava
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 588 - 600
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