Word: fontana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Lake City to discuss the postwar fate of Western steel. In letting out the news, Fairless gave them a surprising new item to chew over. Big Steel, he said, is also ready to dicker with DPC to buy or lease the $110,000,000 steel plant at Fontana, Calif., built and operated by Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser...
Hands Off Fontana. This pass at Fontana made Henry Kaiser roar. Fontana has long been the apple of his eye. He built it in 1942 despite all that the War Production Board could do to stop him, now looks on it as the keystone of a Kaiser postwar empire. Said he: "Fontana is not and will not be for sale." Kaiser repeated an old promise. He plans to operate Fontana himself after the war, would sink another $37,000,000 into Fontana to convert it to peacetime steelmaking...
Henry Kaiser added that furthermore, he and not DPC, owns Fontana, even if the Reconstruction Finance Corp. holds a $110,000,000 mortgage. Although RFC lent him the cash to build the plant, it cannot take over unless he stops paying it back. This he does not intend...
...When the turbines arrived he devised a brand-new method to install them through the ship's sides. Another timesaver: giant "bathtubs" at Maywood give Navy self-propelled landing boats complete dock trials, uncover bugs within handy reach of a wrench. A third trick: when Kaiser's Fontana steel plant needed a blast furnace in a hurry, Alden Roach built him one (Consolidated had never touched furnaces before...
...Kaiser had barely seen his steel dream fulfilled before he was dreaming new dreams. At his star-spangled blowing-in ceremony he told his guests that Fontana was still "just a seed": he wants to surround his steel mill with synthetic rubber plants, plastics production, etc. to round out a Kaiser empire that already embraces cement, magnesium, shipbuilding...