After the Great Depression of the 1930’s, the vast wave of investment in industrial capacity during World War II made up the shortfall of the lost decade. As a result, the Depression did not cast a shadow on future growth – or, rather, the shadow was overwhelmed by the blinding floodlights of five years of mobilization for total war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
20世纪30年代大萧条结束后，二战期间工业产能投资潮弥补了失去的十年留下的空缺。因此大萧条并未给未来增长留下阴影，或者说，大萧条的阴影被为对抗纳粹德国和日本帝国的总体战而动员起来的5年现代化所发出的强光一扫而空。