Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michael Griffin in his article, "What is the matter with the people?" (TIME, July 20) has hit the nail on the head. . . . Believe me, the people are getting pretty dam' tired of selfish interests, political skimeroodle, and red tape. We want action, not oratory; sacrifices, not parades; victories, not flag waving. And we want it not after the elections, not next week, not tomorrow...
Once before big, bald Henry J. Kaiser, the West Coast's dam-building, shipbuilding, build-anything tycoon, had blitzed Washington into giving him what he wanted. That was when he wangled $50,000,000 from Jesse Jones to build a steel plant to supply his brand-new amateur shipyards. Now he was out after bigger stakes. He had broached direct to the public his bold proposal to build 5,000 giant cargo planes (TIME, July 27). Now he descended on Washington with the avowed intention of creating public clamor for his breath-taking scheme...
More important than the trade pact was a $12,000,000 Export-Import Bank credit for construction of a sorely needed hydroelectric plant at Rio Negro dam, not far from industrially growing Montevideo...
...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...
...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...