Currently reading, "Freedom's Forge" .... fantastic story of how the industrial US consumer manufacturing base prepared the nation to become "the arsenal of democracy".
"Centralization = Regimentation. De-centralization = Free enterprise"*
** Wm Knudsen, President of Genera Motors, 1936
In 1936, Knudsen & Sloan (Chairman) had saved General Motors, three years later they would have to save the United States. And, they did.
Knudsen with FDR, GM DUKWs, General Knudson welcomed home, Michigan, 1945