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Assigned in 1946 to Mac Arthur's Tokyo headquarters, Almond as acting Chief of Staff first ran G-1 (personnel). He disliked the work. "I'm an infantry soldier," he said later. "I did my best as G1, but my first love is G-3 [operations]. That's what the Army is all about." Almond was soon promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1949 he moved up to Chief of Staff. Subordinates noted that the promotion had its effect on Almond's temper. The genial deputy chief became a hardboiled, hard-driving chief...
...Doodlebug washed out, but Denver-born, M.I.T.-trained "Mac" McDonnell kept on doodling with designs, ultimately founded his own company and made his share of aviation history. In 1945, he got an order to build the first carrier-based jet fighter for the U.S. Navy, and thereby turned his small, six-year-old McDonnell Aircraft Corp. into a fast-growing big planemaker almost overnight. Last week, as he announced new expansion plans, McDonnell put his backlog at more than $200 million, the seventh biggest in the industry. And his profits for the fiscal year just ended were...
...miss," they say, "with all that Rockefeller money behind him?" Of his original $200,000, McDonnell did get $10,000 from Laurance Rockefeller. Later, Laurance and his family (TIME, Jan. 31, 1949) increased their investment in McDonnell Aircraft to $475,000, giving them 20% of the stock. But Mac McDonnell put "M.A.C." (as he calls McDonnell Aircraft) on its feet through his own talent for design, production know-how and sharp eye for cost-cutting...
Military victory in Korea by the United Nations forces now seems assured unless Mac Tze Tung's Chinese Communists enter the war. All of the experts feared that war with Mac would be fruitless for both sides and Fairbank and Hopper feel that Chinese entry into the Korea fight is a possibility. Fairbank says there is still a danger of Chinese intervention if U.N. troops cross the 38th parallel. War with Red China, he said, would be a bleeding conflict in which "we could not beat them or they...
Reischauer, however, was less pessimistic on this point. "The Chinese Communists," he said, "are striving to create a strong China and are unlikely to run the cost of getting involved in Korea. Perhaps Moscow could force Mac's entry, but that will only occur if Russia is ready...