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NO.81
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Questions 1 and 6 are based on this passage

Many scholars have argued that government investment in manufacturing in the southern United States during the Second World War spurred a regional economic boom that lasted into the postwar period. But much of this investment went to specialized plants, many of them unsuitable for postwar production. Large-scale, wartime government funding led to a massive increase in the number and scale of munitions facilities. By the war’s end, 216 munitions establishment costing more than $3.5 billion had been built, many of them located in the south. Indeed, according to one estimate, more than 70 percent of federally financed manufacturing construction capital in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee went into munitions plants.

Even in the northern regions with strong prewar manufacturing economics, these plants were difficult to deal with once the imperative of war had been removed. In the south few industrialists had the capacity or desire to transform these factories to a peacetime function. Accordingly, at war’s end almost all of the southern munitions facilities were shut down, placed on standby, operated at a very low capacity, or converted to nonmanufacturing functions, usually storage. Although some reopened a few years later for use during the Korean War, the impact of the special plants on the South’s postwar economy was marginal at best.

It can be inferred that the author of the passage would disagree with the “scholars” mentioned in the first sentence about which of the following?

The extent to which the postwar southern economy benefited from the wartime investment of federal funds

The effect of government investment on construction of manufacturing plants in southern states during the Second world war

The extent to which government-funded manufacturing facilities in the South actually benefited the United states effort to win the Second world war

Whether southern munitions plants built during the Second world war were converted to nonmanufacturing functions after the war

Whether government investment in manufacturing in southern states during the Second world war exceeded private investment there

Select one answer choice.

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