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...London, George Mansfield, 39, farmer and naturalized British subject since 1945, filed for the right to resume his full and legal name: Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof von Preussen. Said the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II: "It is only a question of establishing legally my correct family name and title. The name Mansfield was merely a convenience in my business dealings on the farm...
Bill & Al should have no trouble finding customers for their houses. By the time U.S. Steel and Kaiser have their plants running, 14,500 workers alone will have moved into the area, whose total population is expected to grow by at least 32,000. If the Bucks County site is declared a critical defense area, as Bill Levitt is confident it will be, he will get priorities on scarce materials, and credit restrictions will be lifted since the houses will sell for less than $12,000. The Levitts have bought 2,500 acres (average price: $1,100 an acre). They...
...broke the bottleneck was Clay Bedford, 48, a production-engineering expert on loan from Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Charlie Wilson brought him to Washington last May (at no salary) as his production troubleshooter, because he knew that Clay Bedford was the production brain behind just about every one of Kaiser's most spectacular projects...
Ever since Bedford went to work for Henry Kaiser, right out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he has been tackling tough jobs. At 26, he was put in charge of a $20 million job on Cuba's Central Highway. Bedford then straw-bossed the building of Bonneville Dam, a project made so hazardous by the swift Columbia River that no bonding company would have anything to do with it. After doing the same job at Grand Coulee Dam, in 1940, he was made boss of Kaiser's four West Coast shipyards, even though he had never seen a ship...
...head of the shipyards Clay Bedford hit on the idea of building ships in prefabricated sections. At war's end, Bedford went to Willow Run as Kaiser-Frazer's production chief, soon became known as a brilliant "swap guy," chasing all over the U.S. for scarce materials to keep K-F's production lines rolling. When Wilson tapped him for the Office of Defense Mobilization, Bedford had just spent his first night in a new home in Oakland, Calif., where he was to manage K-F's West Coast defense production...