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...Julius Rosenwald, whom Wood had met in wartime Washington, promptly grabbed him. At Ward, Wood had been making $30,000 a year; at Sears, his salary and bonuses as vice president soon totaled $300,000. But Wood was not satisfied; he wanted to revolutionize Sears so that it could mesh gears with the revolution the auto had brought to the U.S. "Imagine it!" he says. "The country was filled with talk about the automobile, Henry Ford was making shopping mobile, yet not a single retailer saw what the impact of the automobile would be." Wood persuaded Rosenwald to open stores...
...short, the expected pinch in goods has arrived just when the supply of confusion over how to mesh rearmament with the civilian economy is more abundant than ever...
That brought up the question foremost in many a Senator's mind: MacArthur's statement to Congress that Russia "would not necessarily mesh her actions to ours." Explained MacArthur: "My own belief is that the Soviet has two great choices-this perhaps oversimplifies, but it will illustrate my thought. Those two great choices are: first, whether he, at some time or other, is going to attack or not. The second choice is the reverse of that: whether he is not going to attack. He knows, just as well as you and I know, that we are not going...
...Some may say to avoid spread of the conflict into an all-out war with China. Others, to avoid Soviet intervention. Neither explanation seems valid, for China is already engaging with the maximum power it can commit, and the Soviet will not necessarily mesh its actions with our moves...
MacArthur: "The Soviet will not necessarily mesh its actions with our moves. Like a cobra, any new enemy will more likely strike whenever it feels that the relativity in military or other potential is in its favor on a worldwide basis...