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PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answers to Part A?
A.
"…the American army was so short of equipment that it used borrowed Good Humor trucks as make-believe tanks in military maneuvers….Yet by the end of the war, the U. S. produced two-thirds of the weapons and equipment used by the Allies to defeat the Axis [powers]..." ( Paragraphs 2-3)
B.
"This…was made possible by the total mobilization of American industry, the country's labor force…and the genius of thousands of military and civilian engineers, scientists and executives." ( Paragraph 4)
C.
"But the biggest help came when American ship builders set out to shore up Britain's supply line by building replacements for the torpedoed cargo ships." ( Paragraph 7)
D.
"By adopting the assembly line methods of the automobile industry, organizing in-time parts deliveries, and launching three shifts a day, American aviation rose from the 41st to the top-producing industry of the U. S. within two years." ( Paragraph 14)
E.
"On September 2, less than a month after the Nagasaki bombing, Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II." ( Paragraph 28)
F.
"'The number of workers, male and female, who were killed or injured in the U. S. industries in 1942-43 exceeded the number of Americans killed or wounded in uniform, by a factor of twenty to one.'" ( Paragraph 29)