Germany and the United States have a hostile relationship, and their own shipyards actually produced a large number of escort aircraft carriers for Germany, how can Roosevelt not be depressed?

However, depression is depression, accusation is blame, and this matter is really not to blame on my special head.

"At that time, the Germans placed an order for a container ship, and all kinds of explanations were reasonable, and this contract had already been approved by Congress, and we went according to the normal procedures at that time, and if you want to blame, you can only blame the Germans for being too cunning." "Not only us, but many other companies have worked with the Germans, and if we had known the current situation, we would never have worked with the Germans," Walter said. ”

It is not the only one that has business dealings with the Germans, and all the enterprises in the United States have dealings with the Germans at the beginning, relying on German orders to feed so many companies in the United States, and now Roosevelt wants to complain, it is also ineffective.

Who didn't know that the Germans made the best money?

At that time, the isolationist United States liked to make a fortune in the wars in Europe, and even if it knew that it would be used for military purposes, it would not hesitate to give the green light.

Now, it's nothing for them, they've earned enough a long time ago, and the most depressed ones should be those who have lent to the Germans, and once Germany and the United States go to war, those loans will not be recovered, and now, those money lenders on Wall Street have long regretted it.

What is even more terrifying is that the development of the euro at the beginning turned the foreign exchange reserves of the United States into waste paper, and those who listened to Roosevelt's words and did not exchange the euro do not know how much regret it now.

As soon as Walter said this, Roosevelt suddenly had no other words, and his eyes continued to be fixed on the drawings, listening to Walter's introduction.

"Standardization is the premise of assembly operations, and all our escort aircraft carriers use the same standard size, so that they can be built in sections in advance, and then the standard sections can be closed, which can greatly improve the speed of construction." Walter said very seriously, after all, this is the first time to produce aircraft carriers in a streamlined manner, because there was no such a large demand before!

"The container ships of the Germans, with marine diesel engines?" Nimitz squinted, looked at one of the drawings, and asked Walter.

As long as he looked at the schematic diagram of the engine device drawn on the back, Nimitz, who was familiar with naval equipment, knew what was drawn in it, and Nimitz was surprised by this.

"Yes, they asked for a design speed of 18 knots, and in order to reduce the size of the engine compartment, they used a diesel engine."

Marine diesel engines, which start quickly and are small at the same time, can greatly reduce the volume occupied by power, which is quite important for aircraft carriers of this pocket class.

Nimitz, however, did not like such a design.

Compared with the steam engine, the consumption of marine diesel engines is too large, one or two are OK, if dozens or even hundreds of ships are built, it will put a heavy burden on the US Navy, after all, steam engine boilers can burn the most inferior heavy oil fuel, but diesel engines are not good, must be high-quality light diesel.

Germany now doesn't have to worry about oil problems, they have a lot of oil fields, but the United States is different, even if the domestic oil fields in the United States are enough to meet their own needs, and they can still be exported, then the cost problem must be considered.

"Switch to a steam engine, we can't use this gold-swallowing monster." Nimitz said.

"However, if we change to a steam engine, then we will have to revise the design drawings a lot." Walter said: "It's not just a steam engine just stuffed into it, the steam engine plus boiler is much larger, and the chimney has to take up a lot of space on the bridge, so it will take us at least half a month to complete the new design, and then it will take about two months to figure out the assembly process to improve our production efficiency." ”

One of the key issues raised by the U.S. Navy was to be fast, and if it were to be redesigned now, it would be too much time.

"In my opinion, we still place an order for a few diesel engines first, and the factory can start production immediately, and then improve while producing, and then use steam engines in the future." Roosevelt said on the side.

The Navy can't afford to wait.

Nimitz could only agree, and this compromise plan looked pretty good.

At the same time, Roosevelt's clapper also meant that the shipyard could start work immediately and enter the production stage, which made Walter excited, the shipyard will enter a new glory, and the war is really good!

Then, Roosevelt and Nimitz and others inspected the shipyard, and they watched the outline of a steamship gradually show in the huge electric sparks, and their own escort aircraft carriers would be built in batches here.

As he walked and watched, an aide hurriedly walked over and said to Roosevelt: "Mr. President, at the Democratic Party meeting in Chicago, you have passed the nomination and will run for the new round of presidential election. We all look forward to your leadership to victory! ”

This news made Roosevelt extremely excited, as long as he could pass the nomination in the party, Roosevelt was confident that he would win the election, the war had begun, and in Roosevelt's eyes, the peak of his life was finally about to begin.

In the past, pulling the U.S. economy out of the crisis was nothing, leading the United States to win this world war and establishing the hegemony of the United States after the war, which was the greatest cause that Roosevelt wanted to achieve!

"Immediately make an appointment with me to meet with the heads of the eight major American conglomerates, and I want to talk to them." Roosevelt said.

Now that he has been nominated, Roosevelt has to go all out to meet this presidential campaign, and for Roosevelt, the first problem of the campaign, of course, is to raise campaign funds, and he needs to search everywhere.

The U.S. consortia before World War II mainly referred to the eight major consortia, including Morgan, Rockefeller, Kuhn-Lobb, Chicago, Mellon, DuPont, Boston, and Cleveland.

In addition to the eight consortiums mentioned above, there were some minor consortia in the United States before World War II, such as the Dillon Reed Consortium, the Brown Brothers-Harriman Consortium, and the Ford Consortium, as well as several smaller local conglomerates such as the Detroit Consortium.

The funds for Roosevelt's campaign, of course, were raised from their hands.

"President Roosevelt, if we want this election to be successful, I suggest that we use the Jews." When Roosevelt returned to the White House, his campaign think tank had already been formed, and the director of the think tank was his old friend Raymond Morley.

Take advantage of the Jews? Roosevelt looked at his old friend with a puzzled gaze.