human
Supposing, said the major,
gpt
I imagine you are better equipped to answer that than I, said Potter.
human
A great deal depends on the start. If a motor were adopted and orders given _now_, we could probably begin making deliveries in six or seven months--if we were assured the material and the labor--and if factories could be found to equip for their manufacture?
gpt
Have you any doubts of that?
human
I've estimated that the initial cost of equipping my father's plant to make engines alone will be upward of half a million dollars, Potter said.
gpt
I don't know how he would feel about going ahead to that extent. Six months ago I would have said he would never consider it. Now I rather believe he would.... Some manufacturers here would jump at the opportunity--from patriotic motives--without a thought of profit. Others would have to be shown where the profit was.
human
Would cost and ten per cent. interest them?
gpt
If you could get them waked up. You'd have to get them to think less about themselves and more about the country.
human
But don't you think a change is taking place in public opinion?
gpt
Yes, he said.
human
There has been a change, a slow movement. Right now I wouldn't even guess how far it had traveled.