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...transcription after its initial broadcast over the NBC network, ate it up. They also liked An Englishman Looks at San Francisco ("All that Britain means to the war in Europe, San Francisco means to the war out there in the Pacific") -especially the gag about how fast Henry Kaiser's shipyards build ships...
After the Englishmen came Russian explorers, Yankee whalers and missionaries, German traders. In 1885 German warships dropped anchor off Jaluit, claimed possession of the Marshalls for the Kaiser. Later Germany agreed that Britain should have the Gilberts. The German Navy dreamed of basing a fleet on Majuro atoll (north of Mili), and in World War I Admiral Graf von Spee stopped there on his way to the Falklands. Then in 1914 the Japs seized the Marshalls, along with the neighboring Marianas and Carolines, now site of the Truk powerhouse; they remained in possession with League blessing. From then...
...improvements on electrical devices made equipment obsolete so fast that the electrical companies sent him abroad for ten years, with a contract not to invent anything electrical during that time. Restless, he invented the machine gun (for which Queen Victoria knighted him). When he demonstrated it before the Kaiser, Wilhelm asked to try it out, swung it in a circle, almost killed the whole General Staff of the German Army...
...peace, they could make great political moves. Item: they might issue a joint ultimatum to the German people, stating for the first time the detailed aftermath of surrender, thus trying to alienate them from Hitler, as Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points wedged between them and the Kaiser...
...Howard Hughes's ice-cold confidence. They closely scrutinized all the plans, were assured by Expert Grover Loening, WPB's aviation adviser, that the ship was far in advance of anything he had seen. WPB's eye warmed up. It decided not to cancel the Kaiser-Hughes contract - at least, not immediately. But WPB also made it plain that it intends to keep an eagle eye on the supership, may yet cancel the contract...