Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Badgered Brewster Aeronautical Corp. is about to be orphaned again: for the sixth time in two years, it is faced with finding-or accepting-a new management. Reason: even Miracle Man Henry J. Kaiser whom the Navy persuaded to take over Brewster a year ago-without remuneration-could not stand the gaff...
...Gave Henry Kaiser a pat on the back for his Permanente project which, despite WPB pessimism, has produced 19,000,000 lb. and has "future possibilities...
...strong man, consistently pro-German and anti-Russian. In 1901 Svinhufvud became a judge under the Czarist regime, fought Imperial Russian ukases until 1914, when he was banished to Siberia. On his return to Finland in 1917 he picked Germany as a good thing, next year asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. When the Allies won the war, Svinhufvud resigned, General Baron Mannerheim came to power. The two men in 1931 emerged on top of the nation, directed its disastrous foreign policy. Domestically, Svinhufvud tolerated no nonsense, quelled Communists and Fascists alike...
...crew of 450 pollsters moved into the three Henry J. Kaiser-operated shipyards in the Portland (Ore.) area. In seven days, they sieved 81,881 workers through a series of questions designed to peg down their postwar plans, the first such big worker-by-worker poll in the U.S. Last week, Shipbuilder Kaiser, who footed the bill, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Maritime Commission, which helped poll, announced the statistical shocker: other than present employment, 86% of the workers have no postwar job in sight...
...Muir technique ignores Henry Kaiser and other bigwigs. Instead, she runs such shipyard society notes as a swap offer found on the wall of a dock men's room: "One wedding ring (unused) for a pair of boxing gloves." It was Jean Muir who discovered the swarming Braukmiller family-15 members working in the yards and averaging $996 a week (TIME, July 26). A national contest of welderettes was partly her doing...