Word: hardheaded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Strength Through Joy automobile factories, France's Maginot Line-it was the kind of Big Job that made a strong appeal to the imagination. The thought of warships abuilding on sheltered inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with Canada that it would involve, the impact on the traditionally isolationist Middle West in finding its harbors linked to the docks of Amsterdam...