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The industrial answer to American wartime steel shortages

Investment in industrial infrastructure and maintenance is proposed as a way to ease the steel shortage affecting USS Kentucky.

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Question

What could have reduced the American steel shortage that delayed projects such as USS Kentucky?

Short answer

More investment in the relevant industrial infrastructure and its maintenance.

Notes

The proposed remedy is greater investment in industrial infrastructure and its maintenance. Keeping that infrastructure in good condition is treated as part of expanding the supply of steel for projects such as USS Kentucky.