Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size and in speed of construction, No. 6 furnace set new records. The Russians like to say that they followed "the methods of Henry Kaiser" in building No. 6; it was assembled five times faster than the Russians had ever built a furnace before, finished in less than six months. Its builders' greatest pride: it was made entirely of Soviet materials. It will produce enough pig iron each month for 1,500 tanks...
...line ship operators blinked, reread the report, blinked again: 6% of the dollar volume of U.S. imports last year arrived by air. Another eye opener: during the dreary months when submarines were sinking Allied ships faster than Henry Kaiser and others could build them, shipments in big-bellied Army & Navy air transports were 20 times safer than those on the seas...
...transcription after its initial broadcast over the NBC network, ate it up. They also liked An Englishman Looks at San Francisco ("All that Britain means to the war in Europe, San Francisco means to the war out there in the Pacific") -especially the gag about how fast Henry Kaiser's shipyards build ships...
After the Englishmen came Russian explorers, Yankee whalers and missionaries, German traders. In 1885 German warships dropped anchor off Jaluit, claimed possession of the Marshalls for the Kaiser. Later Germany agreed that Britain should have the Gilberts. The German Navy dreamed of basing a fleet on Majuro atoll (north of Mili), and in World War I Admiral Graf von Spee stopped there on his way to the Falklands. Then in 1914 the Japs seized the Marshalls, along with the neighboring Marianas and Carolines, now site of the Truk powerhouse; they remained in possession with League blessing. From then...
...improvements on electrical devices made equipment obsolete so fast that the electrical companies sent him abroad for ten years, with a contract not to invent anything electrical during that time. Restless, he invented the machine gun (for which Queen Victoria knighted him). When he demonstrated it before the Kaiser, Wilhelm asked to try it out, swung it in a circle, almost killed the whole General Staff of the German Army...