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workers hac somehow made arrangements for their families that
seemed adequate to them,
They wouldn't come back to work even in
@ regimented society like Nazi Germany. [think this 1s a very importart consideration in planning for construcsive recovery efforts,

to make provision for the family tc be reunited,
RISENBUD:

How long dues it take for an unattended factory to get

so rusty that it cen't be put back into operation”?

WARREN: I've heard a figure of twenty-four hours in the rain and
maybe three days in dry weather, Factories, in general, particularly
those that have heavy machinery where the bearings can get rusted,
get froven, I[f there's no roof, then they get wet and this makes a
very difficult maintenance problem. These figures were quoted betote [went to Japan to see what the percentage was, The engineers
in my party were to try and estimate how much of the production of
the Mitsubishi Works was put out of action,
AYRES: You said seventy-two hours would be the upper limit for
a shutdown”
WARREN: Then you've got a problem of complete taxedown of the
moving parts and relubricating the bearings and removing the rust
which forms guickly if wet by rain,
AYRES:

Before you start up?

WARREN: Before you start up again, Depending en your manpower available and a few parts. this determinzs the time,
TAYLOR: I wonder if factories in the United States that depend
heavily on electronic programming are mors or less susceptible?
WARREN. And water damage’™ [;idn't we have some experience
with tynhoons where the roof was tanen off of factories where there
was a ot of clectronic gear? That would help in this.
TAYLOR: There maybe a hich short-term susceptibility in the
sense that it's casy to knock out the control system but it may be
easier to put it back into operation than the more old-fashioned type
of system,

[just have no idea,

EISENBUD.

I don't know.

Iwas amazed to find after the blackout

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