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When Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser stormed into Washington 16 months ago with plans to build 5,000 giant cargo planes in shipyards, most U.S. planemakers hooted down: 1) Mr. Kaiser, 2) the very idea. Some of them, Washington rumor said, put their best hatchet men to work to kill it. But stubborn Mr. Kaiser somehow salvaged a small Government contract from the battle. Turned down everywhere in the industry, he promptly went to work with lanky Howard Robard Hughes, movie maker, oilman, round-the-world flyer and aeronautical engineer. They planned to turn out three super-colossal planes of Hughes...
Last week, the hatchet work was revived; Shipbuilder Kaiser and Flyer Hughes stormed into Washington. They had good reason: WPB was casting a cold and fishy eye on the three-plane contract, had a good mind to cancel...
...Dewey, victim of some of the most thorough journalistic hatchet jobs of the century, laughed off the stage in a premature Presidential try in 1940, has shown his ability to grow and thus to come back. He is compiling an unassailable record as Governor of the nation's No. 1 political state. In Gallup polls-despite Wendell Willkie's recent spurt (see p. 14)-he leads all other Republicans as he has for many months...
Turkey would naturally like to have the Dodecanese Islands and Western Thrace-but probably not at the expense of a strong, friendly Greece. For the past decade Turkey has considered Greece the cornerstone of her Balkan relations, in 1936 went out of her way to bury the hatchet with her onetime enemy by an exchange of populations that meant considerable sacrifices for Turkey. About a month ago, an editorial in the No. 1 Turkish newspaper Aksam declared that Turkey had no right to interfere with the peace terms, but would support the eviction of Italy from the Balkans...
...Mexico's rough, tough type of politico is the President's older brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Rich, shrewd Brother Maximino has an interest in Mexico City's bull ring, as Minister of Communications has his hand in many other ventures. He is Manuel's hatchet man, the fixer, "the man to know" in Mexican politics and finance. Yet no man ever traced any venture of Maximino's to the President's door, and certainly not to his pockets. Labor distrusts Maximino, the peasants sometimes confuse him with Manuel. The President once pointed...