Our country and its resources; . RACINE REEF LIGHTHOUSE IN WINTERGARB. MODERN METHODS OF ORE HANDLING IN THE HOLD OF A SHIP CHAPTER XX. COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIALPREPAREDNESS By Dr. EDWARD EWING PRATT CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WE are indebted to the greatEuropean war for the sloganPreparedness. The wordwas in the dictionary before hostil-ities began, but it lacked any realvitality. Americans had always as-sumed that they were pretty wellprepared for almost any eventuality,as individuals and as a we needed to fight we had a pop-ulat
Our country and its resources; . RACINE REEF LIGHTHOUSE IN WINTERGARB. MODERN METHODS OF ORE HANDLING IN THE HOLD OF A SHIP CHAPTER XX. COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIALPREPAREDNESS By Dr. EDWARD EWING PRATT CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WE are indebted to the greatEuropean war for the sloganPreparedness. The wordwas in the dictionary before hostil-ities began, but it lacked any realvitality. Americans had always as-sumed that they were pretty wellprepared for almost any eventuality,as individuals and as a we needed to fight we had a pop-ulation of a hundred million to fallback on: if we ever came to a passwhere we needed more foreign trade,we could go out and get it; if weneeded to make tilings that othershad always made for us, all we hadto do was make them. We wereliving in a fools paradise. We know now that we were notadequately prepared to do anythingInit drift and muddle along ratherprosperously by virtue of immenseresources, favorable geographicalsituation, and a native ingenuityand resourcefulne
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