In this episode, Klinger is able trade Lebanese salami for a copy of Life magazine. In the magazine there is a pictorial on the Shores of Maine. The magazine is the August 4, 1952 issue. On the cover is Adlai Stevenson
The title comes from the expression "where there's a will, there's a way."
BJ says that "MacArthur makes the blood run on time". This is a restatement of a common description of Mussolini who, despite his other flaws in leadership, "made the trains run on time".