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...there were enough potential vice-presidential candidates to create a traffic jam on the promenade deck. Among them: Massachusetts' John Volpe, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Ohio's James Rhodes, Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, Colorado's John Love, New Mexico's David Cargo, Washington's Daniel Evans, even Nelson's younger brother, Arkansas' Winthrop Rockefeller...
...they paid $60,000 for 15% of California-headquartered Electro-Vision Corp., rid themselves of its lackluster movie-theater business, and began producing optical and cargo-handling equipment. Early in 1961, Stone's old boss at Monogram offered to sell him and Karp a controlling interest in the company, which, as Stone had fore seen, was going bankrupt. In addition to sanitation equipment, Monogram was manufacturing temporary production holding devices used to attach unbolted metal sheets to the frames of jets, along with precision sheet metal and containers. A quick and drastic surgical job was essential if the company...
...that the Navy wants the R.L.S. back. It was trying its best to sink her when she escaped. A superannuated World War II Liberty ship taken from the mothball fleet, she had been ballasted with concrete and topped off with a cargo of 2,000 tons of overage torpedo warheads, mines and other obsolete ammunition, becoming in effect a floating bomb. Then she was fitted with six Sofar charges with hydrostatic fuses set to shiver her bulkheads automatically under the pressure of 4,000 ft. of water. One purpose of the planned undersea blast was to help the Pentagon...
...vessels in a hurry. "I'm a builder," Kaiser explained, "and if you call yourself a builder, you ought to be able to build anything." Using prefabricated parts and assembly-line techniques in an industry that had never known either, Kaiser's seven shipyards built 1,490 cargo ships and 50 baby aircraft carriers before the war was over. This amounted to one-third of all U.S. ships that were launched during the war. Kaiser's principal rule was speed ("There's no money in a slow job"), and one freighter was actually finished four days...
...grander scale. Because steel shipments were slow, he organized Kaiser Steel at Fontana, Calif., with a $123 million Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan that brought considerable criticism from Congress and Wall Street alike. He dabbled in airplanes, and with Howard Hughes conceived the idea of a ten-engine cargo plane that never got off the drafting board. Later he founded Kaiser Aluminum...