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...July 1942, the Germans were sweeping unchecked across Russia and Africa. Help from the U.S. was crippled by German submarines, which were knocking off up to 700,000 tons of shipping a month. It was a dark hour for the Allies, and the man of the hour was Henry Kaiser, the miracle shipbuilder and idea man from the west...
Pudgy Henry Kaiser, by his own testimony before the committee, had bustled into Washington with a hatful of ideas. One of them paid off. It was a fleet of baby flattops to extend U.S. air power across the Atlantic. As much as anything, his carriers broke the back of the U-boat campaign. Another Kaiser scheme was a fleet of 500 enormous cargo planes to broad-jump over the subs...
Miracle Man Kaiser had had a little more trouble selling that scheme. The Army & Navy were against it. They needed scarce materials and technicians for their standard combat and transport craft. Planemaker Grover Loening told committeemen how, as a representative of WPB, he looked over Kaiser's plan and reached the same conclusion as the military men. WPB's aviation experts figured Henry Kaiser didn't know an airplane from a Sherman tank and that his promise to get the first model into the air within 20 months only proved...
...What? But what was the story? In two months of secret proceedings the committee had tried to find out 1) if Hughes and his wartime partner, Henry Kaiser, had used pressure to get and keep war contracts, and 2) what they had done with the $40 million the Government had given them to build war planes...
...shot at the Senator? Kaiser fancied that he had three very good reasons: 1) he had been fired from his policeman's job in April and a Bricker appointee had taken his place; 2) when he had been wiped out in the crash of an Ohio building & loan firm 15 years ago, the name of Ohio's then Attorney General, John Bricker, had appeared on all the papers that spelled his financial ruin; 3) Bricker had done nothing to help him get his job or his money back...