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  "thread": {
    "id": 2779,
    "subject": "tangent: resources tied up by Final Solution [Digest urth.v030.n167]",
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    "first": "2001-08-13T15:51:44+00:00",
    "last": "2001-08-13T15:51:44+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0629@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at zko.dec.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-08-13T15:51:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re:tangent: resources tied up by Final Solution [Digest urth.v030.n167]",
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          "text": "I've seen some figures for \"war materiel\" produced\nper year by the major actors in World War II.\n\nHere's the quotes (from rec.arts.sf.written, by\naspqrz at sydney.DIALix.oz.au (Phillip McGregor),\n9 Nov 1995):\n\n<quote>\nApprox Spending on Armaments (1994 US$, Billions)\n\n                    1939    1940    1941    1942    1943    1944\n\nUS                  5.4     13.5    40.5    180     342     379\nUK                  9       31.5    58.5    81      99      100\nCanada              0       0       4.5     9       13.5    13.5\nUSSR                30      45      76      104     125     144\n\nGermany             31      54      54      77      124     153\nJapan               4.5     9       18      27      42      54\n<end quote>\n\nThe two enconomies weren't comparable--the US was capable\nof outproducing Germany by two or three to one.  The Axis'\nonly hope was to win a quick war and reach a settlement\n_before_ the US got its act in gear.\n\nSo 10% or 50% extra production in Germany wouldn't have\nmade more of a difference than a slight rescheduling of\nGermany's defeat--though if it's postponed more than a\nmonth or so, the A-bomb would be ready to be used on\nGermany, so the defeat can't be prolonged much past August\n(Hiroshima drop was August 6, 1945 if I've got it right).\n\nEither way they lose in the summer of 1945."
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