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...West Coast came to the melancholy end of a shipbuilding era last week. In Henry J. Kaiser's record-holding Richmond Shipbuilding Corp. Yard No. 2 in California, the S.S. Benjamin Warner (named after the father of Hollywood's Warner brothers) slid into San Francisco Bay. It was the 1,147th Liberty ship launched on the West Coast-and the last...
...time Boulder Dam came along (1931), Frank had a reputation: he was the man who could read blueprints at a glance (or ignore them when necessary), the man who could build dams faster than anyone else. When Henry J. Kaiser's Six Companies got the Boulder Dam bid, Frank was the natural choice to boss...
...trouble lay in the abrupt, muddleheaded way the cutback had been ordered -without due notice. Henry Kaiser, in his seven months at Brewster, had laid off 7,000 men, and not even the union had protested. But the Administration had stepped in unprepared, and fumbled its first big cutback crisis. Now it had to resort to make-work, tiding over the dismissed employes until July 1, to give them "adequate" dismissal notice. The Government could put Brewster to making spare parts for other Corsair producers -but this would be highly inefficient: their manufacturing techniques differed. Was the Administration...
Stockholders of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. met last week to go through a wearisomely familiar routine: elect a new management, its seventh in three years. Ship builder Henry J. Kaiser, his job done (to get Brewster finally into production), was leaving. He gave out the cheerful news that Brewster, after two years of losses, was finally making money. But he warned that this might not last, that the Navy might end its contract for Corsair fighters, the only contract Brewster held...
...Navy made no attempt at a quick settlement of Brewster's tangled finances (the maze of conflicting claims between the Navy and Brewster total upwards of $20,000,000). Although he had left the company in the nick of time, ex-Boss Kaiser deplored the Navy's action of throwing 10,000 men out of work on three days' notice. With a look at Congress, which is making slow progress in passing a bill covering contract terminations, he warned: "This is a situation which many companies will face...