Charles R. Morris Quotes - Page 2

• It wasn't openly talked about very much, in the sense that people said they wanted to beat GB at this or that, but there would however be sidelong comparisons frequently in press commentary. And it was also pretty quickly obvious that no other countries were developing the kind of technological depth of industry as were the US and the UK.

  Charles R. Morris

  Country, People, Depth

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.

  Charles R. Morris

  Ideas, Littles, Sides

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.

  Charles R. Morris

  War, Past, Steel

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.

  Charles R. Morris

  Years, Iron, Oil

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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