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...completed hulls there. When the turbines arrived he devised a brand-new method to install them through the ship's sides. Another timesaver: giant "bathtubs" at Maywood give Navy self-propelled landing boats complete dock trials, uncover bugs within handy reach of a wrench. A third trick: when Kaiser's Fontana steel plant needed a blast furnace in a hurry, Alden Roach built him one (Consolidated had never touched furnaces before...
Treasury Secretary Henry J. Morgenthau Jr. went to Portland, Ore. to spur the war bond drive, was given local apples to compare with his own New York State-grown product, compared them (see cut). At Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard a young worker remarked: "Say, I always have wanted some money direct from the Treasury." The Secretary reached into his right-hand exchequer, gave him two bits...
...time the Miranda-Zelcer 10% stock interest was frozen in a voting trust, the commissions due them on new deliveries were frozen in stockholders' suits, and Brewster itself was solidly frozen in production and financial red tape. In came still another management - this time Miracle Man Henry J. Kaiser himself...
...boats beyond their own range. On the probability that converted carriers-50, 75, 100 of them if necessary-could push them out of the water altogether, the President was willing to gamble. If they worked, the Commander in Chief of the Navy could hold out his hand to Mr. Kaiser. It was their joint idea...
...operator of Henry Kaiser's Portland shipyards, Son Edgar Kaiser hired 80,000 workers in two years and helped make the local servant problem worse. After two weeks' combing of employment bureaus and the Situations Wanted, he finally scratched up a cook for his own home...