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Grand Scale. When Kaiser needed more cement for his prewar construction projects, he founded a cement company and one to supply sand and gravel. As an industrialist he followed this idea on a 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...
...leased for the summer as a dormitory for Bus and his boys. A cheery "good morning" greets early risers who come to the table fresh from their two-mile run, and something else is in store for the slugabeds who forgot how hard it is to sneak up a gravel driveway at 3 a.m. without waking someone important. The only way to get two cocktails at East Bourne Lodge is to be first in line: Happy Hour lasts only half an hour, and even the ice is rationed. Not that Intrepid's owners are trying to pinch pennies: last...
...Army Reserve to learn to fly. He remembers "singing hallelujahs as I did my first aerobatics in 1923, all alone, without the damn instructor in the rear cockpit." He also recalls "something like psychic ecstasy during my first parachute jump. The ecstasy ended when I landed in weeds and gravel and the open chute pulled me through them...
...something like a circus -- a lengthy, five ring circus with assorted sideshows. Down in Carey Cage, Coach Norm Shepard runs the squad through bunting drills with Iron Mike pitching machines, sliding practice in the Cage's dusty pits and hit-'em field-'em drills on the packed down gravel...
...long-inured Vietnamese seldom stay out in the field for more than 24 hours at a stint. Finding dry land to implant batteries of howitzers is difficult. More armed helicopters could fill the gap, but they require airports, which in the Delta must be built up with imported gravel. Can Tho airfield proudly announces that it is seven feet above sea level, and the Bac Lieu airstrip sports a sign giving its elevation as "Dry season: two feet above sea level. Rainy season: two feet below sea level...