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...Willys he borrowed fresh capital, rebuilt his dealer organization. In 1939, Willys lost $1,862,232, in 1940 another $873,115. Then, when Army Quartermaster Corps cast about for a midget reconnaissance car, Joe Frazer saw his chance to cash in on Willys' small-car making. By sweating his engineers and production men Joe Frazer soon had the joy of seeing the Willys car became the Army standard jeep...
This calculation rests on the somber fact that the need to rehabilitate is in itself no guarantee that rehabilitation will take place. A row of shattered houses does not get itself spontaneously rebuilt any more than a valuable but unexploited mine spontaneously opens itself or milk spontaneously provides itself to school children or to Hottentots. In a world organized to enjoy the economies of a division of labor, work gets done only as the result of a command or an inducement...
ENOUGH COLLABORATORS. Brazil is acquiring a steel industry. Latin America is industrializing. Britain's per capita war production is ahead of the U.S. German industry is still formidable despite bombing. Russian industry has achieved miracles despite the war. China has moved, rebuilt -even expanded-her industry. India has climbed to eighth place among industrial powers...
...Angeles candy stores, cleaned out by the pre-Christmas rush, ordered sales limited to 5 lb. to a customer while they rebuilt stocks. Last week scores of Los Angeles shoppers who had never bought 5 lb. of candy at one time in their lives went from store to store buying the limit...
...seaplane tender and repair ship. The California, Nevada and West Virginia have been, or are being, repaired and outfitted with modern guns and machines. Even the destroyer Shaw, which did not seem to be worth 35?, was "sewed" together and sent to the U.S. mainland, where it was rebuilt. For the most remarkable salvage job in naval engineering history the U.S. could thank Captain Homer N. Wallin and the thousands of naval and civilian workers who labored under...