Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 338 (Part 1)" video.

  1. wrt Daniel's question about steel shortages, I think he might mean the steel shortage immediately after the war. Part of the problem was the steelmaking facilities had been run very hard through the war and many facilities were simply worn out. Another part of the problem was, during the war, the industry had been optimized for producing the sort of steel needed for war production, rather than peacetime consumer goods. One example: Kaiser tried to get into the automobile business after the war. Kaiser owned several steel mills, but they were set up to produce steel plate, for ships, not the coils of thin, rolled, steel, needed for car production. The Kaiser auto plant had to buy steel coils on the spot market, at exorbitant prices, and air freight them to the plant.
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