and the story, as my introducer, henry olsen, has just told you of collective effort, of government directing the resources of the, of american economy towards a single collective end and achieving in the process an outpouring of american wartime material of the like the world had never seen before. 70% of all of the war equipment used by the allies in world war ii came out of american factories. it's an incredible story. it's the industrial miracle of the 20th century, what occurred there. but what i'm going to tell you is a story that shows that the usual version has this backwards. that where we usually start is where it should finish. and where it should start, actually, is not in factories like wichita's b-29 plant, but back in the spring of 1940. and i want to put you in the place of the man who would, in