In the December 1942 National Geographic Magazine, Albert W. Atwood authored an article titled "The Miracle of War Production." Atwood penned the following words:

This country which we love is producing all-out for war. At first there was only a trickle, then it became a mighty stream, and now it is a deluge [an overwhelming amount] of ships, planes, tanks, and guns roaring down the assembly lines of America.

True, the war finally must be won on the battlefields, but it cannot be won without production, and it can be lost in the shops and factories….

This war has an incredibly voracious, an unbelievably stupendous appetite for materials, supplies, equipment, machines, munitions, and armaments….

By a sheer miracle of production America is now satisfying the yawning maw [mouth or jaws] of the war god….

Hence this country has become the most gigantic factory the world has ever...