Hartford World: The Arsenal of Democracy, Part IV
March 25, 1942 “Good afternoon, Sir,” said Chief McGuire, standing. “I hope that you had a wonderful visit with your family.” “It was too short, but, yes, it was a good day, Chief. Thank you,” Vice...
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Unless this is another delta of HW we didn't know about, it would be possible to ship crude from Mexico's Tampico oil fields to the west coast of the US.In the OTL 1940s the oil fields and the Mexican...
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Big Dave wrote:Unless this is another delta of HW we didn't know about, it would be possible to ship crude from Mexico's Tampico oil fields to the west coast of the US.In the OTL 1940s the oil fields...
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Theodore wrote:I would think food shortages might be a potential problem for the northeastern cities of the USA too, with the damage done to the transport links between the Midwest and the East. It...
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coast watcher wrote: “Let me take that question,” said Lieutenant Commander Crandlemire. “Commander Adams directed the team to start a simulation of the Battle of the Atlantic, assuming that both the...
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Quebec may be neutral, but surely willing to sell lots of food to NE for cash or other commodities. BTW, I suspect hard for KNE = NE + AtlProvs to be 50% urban unless you count towns of 5-10,000 as...
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From what I remember, after having moved away a few years ago, there is another problem in that some of the better farming lands are around the Connecticut River valley and that area, especially in...
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vpsoccer wrote:Quebec may be neutral, but surely willing to sell lots of food to NE for cash or other commodities. BTW, I suspect hard for KNE = NE + AtlProvs to be 50% urban unless you count towns of...
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In its 1940s state of the art, Fischer-Tropsch was very inefficient. It took a short ton of coal to produce the same amount transportation liquids (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel) as a barrel of West...
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I don't see Quebec as much of a source for importing grain to New England. It has even worse weather and there isn't all that much arable land there.KNE has to be importing food from two sources:...
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Big Dave wrote:One would assume a rough technological (radio/radar) parity between the US and KNE/UK.While I'm sure this is accounted for in the War College sim, whither the Antilles? Was there a...
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coast watcher wrote:vpsoccer wrote:Quebec may be neutral, but surely willing to sell lots of food to NE for cash or other commodities. BTW, I suspect hard for KNE = NE + AtlProvs to be 50% urban...
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Big Dave wrote:Time to construct and de-bug an F-T plant in the 1940s would go about three years, so the US would have to have initiated a crash F-T plant building program by fourth quarter 1938 at...
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OCRY wrote:From what I remember, after having moved away a few years ago, there is another problem in that some of the better farming lands are around the Connecticut River valley and that area,...
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wb wrote:You're right--it'll be a little higher than 50% urban--but keep in mind three factors:3) The Canadian Maritimes are roughly as urban as Maine in 1940...well under 50%. (Maine was 40.5% urban...
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wb wrote:You're right--it'll be a little higher than 50% urban--but keep in mind three factors:1) While most westward migration came from the East Coast states south of New England, some New...
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coast watcher wrote: Add in all the other challenges facing KNE and things definitely look bleak from a food production POV. I'm not convinced it's a famine situation, but belts would definitely be...
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vpsoccer wrote:I don't know the definition used in 1940 (41 for Canada) but in 2000 the US called organized areas (i.e. towns, cities )>2,500 urban, but in earlier times any census division...
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wb wrote:coast watcher wrote: Add in all the other challenges facing KNE and things definitely look bleak from a food production POV. I'm not convinced it's a famine situation, but belts would...
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coast watcher wrote:Québec has excellent farmland along the St. Lawrence floodplain and down to the U.S. border. The problem is the inefficient use of the land. Under the French-derived inheritance...
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vpsoccer wrote:coast watcher wrote:Québec has excellent farmland along the St. Lawrence floodplain and down to the U.S. border. The problem is the inefficient use of the land. Under the French-derived...
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