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...publicized businessman of 1942, not only because of his immense energy and drive but because he applied them to the most critical of all problems-the supply of shipping. Kaiser had never built a ship up to the time that Hitler invaded Poland. He had built highways, helped build Boulder Dam, and had learned, in his own phrase, to handle "the heavy materials." Kaiser's ability to handle heavy materials allowed him to cut the time for delivering a Liberty ship from an initial 197 days to an average of under 40 days in his Portland yards, as against...
...course is to be open to 500 college men who have had either some training in the Japanese language, or, failing that, a Phi Beta Kappa college standing. The school, whose students will receive Navy pay ranging from $125 to $142, will be established at Boulder, Colorado, on or about January...
...give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes the motors stalled; everybody had to get out to shovel. A snow boulder stove in the cabside. The engineer was knocked out. Bill Jeffers jumped to his place, grabbed the throttle, finally got the plow into Parco. Union Pacific trains ran again...
Kaiser and Howard will make a fabulous team. Kaiser and his men, who helped put up Grand Coulee Dam (largest in the world), Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world), are natural-born nose thumbers at nature...
...Century B.C. After him came Alexander of Macedonia, Antiochus III of Syria, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Baber. Centuries later came the British; then the Russians; finally the Germans and Japanese. Last week, clutching his brief case in a car that pitched like a camel over the boulder-strewn Khyber Pass, came the American. He was balding, professorial Cornelius van Henert Engert, U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan...