Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have the assembly line in production at six months or less and it could be in maximum production at ten months or less." Kaiser's proposal sounded fantastic, but the U.S. has learned better than to scoff at the production promises of the man who built Boulder Dam in record time, and whose latest feat has been to cut the time for a Victory ship to one-sixth of the average for World War I freighters...
...when smart Stephen D. Bechtel and natty John A. McCone took it over in the fall of 1940. Their first job was driving 60,000 pilings into the mud (a world's record for one job), but that was easy enough after their experience with Henry Kaiser on Boulder Dam and the San Francisco Bay bridge. The real problem was finding and training 40,000 workmen, less than 1% of whom had ever worked in a shipyard before...
...Moritz and Felix, kept an eye out for a still younger brother Julius, who was just finishing college. His faith in the Kahn family was not misplaced. Louis is still Albert's chief executive and right-hand man. Felix worked with the famous "six companies" group that built Boulder Dam. Moritz, now dead, supervised most of the work on Russia's Five-Year Plan. The young Julius, later an executive with Republic Steel, invented a new and more precisely calculable method of reinforcing concrete which eventually made Albert Kahn the outstanding U.S. authority on concrete construction...
...best. It gives movement, distance and a terrifying casualness to his painful suspense. It leads the hero to the palatial Nevada ranch of the master saboteur (Otto Kruger), into the hands of the police, out of them to an abandoned desert mining town loaded with paraphernalia to blow up Boulder Dam, on to Manhattan and an ironic denouement. The Girl (Priscilla Lane), of course, is picked up en route...
Speed was why Todd and Kaiser got together in the first place. When the British in 1940 handed Todd a $100,000,000 rush order for 60 freighters, Todd was already working overtime on its repair business, needed new ways to build the ships. Kaiser, rapid-fire builder of Boulder, Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams, was the man they needed-and got. He worked 16-hour days, borrowed whirler cranes and other machinery from Grand Coulee, pounded between California and Washington commuter-fashion. Four months after Kaiser started, bleak mud flats were lofty ways. In January-13 months after...