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When Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser stormed into Washington 16 months ago with plans to build 5,000 giant cargo planes in shipyards, most U.S. planemakers hooted down: 1) Mr. Kaiser, 2) the very idea. Some of them, Washington rumor said, put their best hatchet men to work to kill it. But stubborn Mr. Kaiser somehow salvaged a small Government contract from the battle. Turned down everywhere in the industry, he promptly went to work with lanky Howard Robard Hughes, movie maker, oilman, round-the-world flyer and aeronautical engineer. They planned to turn out three super-colossal planes of Hughes...
Last week, the hatchet work was revived; Shipbuilder Kaiser and Flyer Hughes stormed into Washington. They had good reason: WPB was casting a cold and fishy eye on the three-plane contract, had a good mind to cancel...
Suspicious Mr. Kaiser. But blunt Mr. Kaiser made no secret of what he thought was the real reason. Aircraft makers had been scoffingly certain that the tremendous Kaiser-Hughes plane would be a flop. (Where will he get the plant? The men? The engineers? The materials? Besides, the U.S. doesn't need it.) Now, said Mr. Kaiser, they were worried lest it be a success. They feared, with good reason, said he, that it would put Shipbuilder Kaiser years ahead in the race for a postwar plane...
Satisfied WPB. Out of the huddle of conferences and the welter of staggering facts leaked one shocker: the Kaiser-Hughes plane, the largest ever built, will carry 700 soldiers fully equipped. Or it could evacuate 550 wounded...
...totaling $175,000,000, is almost sick & tired of the whole thing. Retired Navy Captain George C. Westervelt, who ran Brewster for a month when the Navy took it over, reiterated the ominous warning given by James V. Forrestal, Under Secretary of the Navy. He told the committee: if Kaiser fails, all of Brewster's Navy contracts should be transferred to other companies...