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...Kaiser had another complaint. White had refused to let Kaiser set foot on his new property until after midnight Aug. 31 (when Republic's interim lease expired). WAAdministrator Larson confirmed this. White, he said, had told him: "It's going to give me a lot of pleasure to make it tough for those bastards...
...Hatfield-McCoy standards, there was too much talk and not anywhere near enough damage. But nobody could accuse Henry Kaiser and Republic Steel's President Charles M. White of not trying. Kaiser, in a surprise deal with War Assets Administrator Jess Larson, had snatched the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace from under White's nose (TIME, Aug. 30); last week, when Senator Kenneth Wherry's Small Business Committee looked into that deal, the feud was out in the open...
...Kaiser charged that White had "tried to blackjack the Government" into letting Republic have the plant dirt-cheap. He told how once, on the telephone, White had called him "the kind of fellow that carries a pistol in his pocket." When Kaiser tried to recall the date, White offered to provide it. Said he: "I had a stenographer on the telephone...
...Sneered Kaiser: "You would have...
...northeastern foundries from their pig-iron supplies had whipped up terrific pressure from the foundrymen. Moreover, White knew that the plant, which Republic built, was so much a part of Republic's other operations that it could never be cut out of them without a long shutdown. Kaiser confessed that he was in for trouble unless the committee could "make a Christian out of White...