Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy. This week, as the Casablanca crisscrossed Puget Sound with happy Henry Kaiser aboard, the engine ran superbly. Smoothly, the $7,000,000 Casablanca did better than its designed speed, controlled nicely at slow speeds, came through perfectly on a crash stop...
...most combat jobs, too short to launch their planes on calm days, except with catapults. But the ships are fast enough to keep up with merchant convoys, to spread an umbrella of planes over them to fight U-boats. On their ability to do that well, the President and Kaiser have gambled. Only the Battle of the Atlantic can give the final payoff...
...carriers were not the only gamble Kaiser had on the board. A year ago he gambled that he could build his Richmond No. 3 yard in time to turn out a new type of ship (a troop carrier) by this summer...
Loud Congressmen. Into San Francisco, to probe this bet, came a House Marine subcommittee, chairmanned by Congressman James A. O'Leary (D., N.Y.), no friend of Kaiser's. Maritime Commission Auditor Alonzo Bryan made some scandalous charges to the committee...
...Richmond $105,000,000 had been spent, and not a single ship delivered; the yard has enough cable and welding iron to supply four other Kaiser yards, has hoarded so many materials "it is small wonder other shipyards are delayed"; workers quit 15 minutes early, costing the Maritime Commission $15,000 weekly in lost time...