Originally Posted by
PersonFromPorlock
The DC-3/C-47 was produced by Douglas (interestingly, and Lisunov, and Nakajima), not Boeing; dumping thousands of them on the civil market after the War only depressed the market for Boeing products.
That's a complete misrepresentation. The US industry moved straight to producing large numbers of airliners immediately post-war, in plants and with tools and skills which had been government funded for wartime production.
The Lockheed Constellation, Convair 240 series, Martin 404, DC4 and DC6 all made substantial (for the time) sales, and swept round the world. Only the UK had any other volume production of airliners at the time.
Boeing only produced small numbers of airliners between 1940 and the 707 in 1958, concentrating on military in that time.