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...Particular Strain. The Senate, always sadder & wiser than the House, continued to debate. Still the most voluble and stubborn opponent of granting such executive powers was Ohio's Robert Taft, who talked as if all the mobilization now going on was meant only to lick North Korea, instead of preparing for something worse. "I do not intend to say that the Korean war is not a real war," he argued. "But from an economic standpoint, it is not any particular strain on the economy...
...they soon found what the island had in store for them. When the supporting Navy took a pasting in the Battle of Savo Island and went off to lick its wounds, the 1st was left alone on Guadalcanal with the Japanese, the jungle, malaria, dysentery, fungus disease. In control of the sea and air, the Japanese constantly reinforced their positions, managed to put 40,000 men on the island against the marines' 10,000. The 1st suffered hundreds of air raids and a devastating shelling from Japanese battleships and cruisers. One of Guadalcanal's heroes was Colonel Merritt...
Shades of Dec. 7, when we thought we'd lick the Japanese in six weeks...
...said: "I want Joe Stalin to know that if he starts something at 4 o'clock in the morning the fighting power and strength of America will be on the job at 5 o'clock." The joke going around the Pentagon was: "Louis said we could lick the Russians-he didn't mean the North Koreans." In short, the U.S. was at least partly prepared for a thunderous Armageddon. It was not prepared at all for the North Koreans...
...standard of living will fall." That is no new problem. The U.S. economy has met it before, notably in shortening the work week. Since 1909, manufacturing hours have been cut from 52.7 to 40, while wages have risen from $10 a week to $56.33. The U.S. could lick the pension problem without devastating strikes, provided that pensions were regarded not as a gift, but as something to be earned...