"United States Auto Plants Are Cleared for War"
Magazine article
By: Life,
Date: February 16, 1942
Source: "United States Auto Plants Are Cleared for War." Life, February 16, 1942.
About the Publication: Life was founded in 1936 as a pictorial news magazine by publisher Henry R. Luce (1898–1967), who also founded Time (1923), Fortune (1930), and Sports Illustrated (1954). It was published weekly until 1972, and beginning in 1978 it shifted to publishing monthly issues. After its first few issues, Life quickly became noted for its photojournalism, especially for offering more pages of photos than its competitors provided.
Introduction
With their involvement in World War II (1939– 1945), Americans had gone from the pursuit of pleasure to the waging of war. The automobile companies stopped the production of automobiles for civilians so that they could...
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