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Willkie & Johnston...
...with eight business leaders (including Eric A. Johnston, Benjamin F. Fairless, David Sarnoff) whose advice he will henceforth seek from time to time on postwar economic problems. Among the subjects he recommended to their study: reconversion, the future of U.S. synthetic-rubber plants, how to dispose of materials and plants owned by the Government...
...Johnston,' one of our British friends argued, 'in your country you know perfectly well that your Government wouldn't permit General Motors to go bankrupt...
...peacetime,' replied Johnston, 'we certainly would.' The entire table looked incredulous. Johnston was taken aback. He turned to me for confirmation. On my return from England, sitting next to Jesse Jones at lunch in Washington, I turned to him. 'And why not?' asked our Secretary of Commerce...
...Only 80 odd years ago,' Colonel Buckley answered. Fifty thousand pounds ($250,000) 80 years ago. I thought of Eric Johnston's four companies in Spokane employing 1,700 people, and pyramided from $2,500; of my own start in business in 1929 with $5,000 . . .; of the Ford empire, built in one man's lifetime on . . . $28,000 [cash investment...