19,000 airplanes, making it one of the most prolific aircraft factories in the WesternHemisphere.Using government documents, company records, and news reports from the era, Terranceexamines the NAA plants successes and failures as management and employees worked tomaintain production while dealing with manpower, material, and housing shortages for almost40,000 workers. When production fell behind schedule, the Truman Committee investigatedwith four days of contentious testimony on what was going wrong at NAA. The company’scontroversies highlighted many of the same difficulties experienced by most of the otherfactories in wartime America.In short, Terrance Furgerson, a professor of history at Collin College near Dallas, merges themilitary, political, and business worlds with social history during wartime industrial
mobilization, and, just as importantly, its impact on the people and workers living nearby.
