Pipelines of Power: The Political Economy of the 'Big Inch' and 'Little Big Inch' during the Second World War and Their Postwar Legacy.
During the Second World War, the federal government of the United States cooperated with multiple corporations in the joint construction of two War Emergency Pipelines – known as the 'Big Inch' and 'Little Big Inch' – that ran from Texas to New York and Philadelphia, with final stations in Linden, N...
| Publicado en: | History Vol. 110; no. 393; pp. 624 - 641 |
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