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...from any anti-labor die-hard Tory but from one of labor's most liberal-minded employers last week came an appeal for modification of the Wagner Act. The appealer was Henry J. Kaiser. His reason: the jurisdictional fight in three of his shipyards between A.F. of L. unions and C.I.O...
During the dismal '30s most of the high-powered thinking about the U.S. economy as a whole went on in Washington, D.C. Last week there occurred one more sign-Henry Kaiser's speech to N.A.M. was an earlier one (TIME, Dec. 14) -that U.S. business is now resolving to do some national thinking on its own account. Formally announced was the "Committee for Economic Development," which believes that the U.S. must have as its goal the maintenance of post-war employment at some 55 millions, the maintenance of the national output of goods and services at between...
...Henry J. Kaiser realized another dream last week. At Fontana, Calif., 45 miles east of Los Angeles in the heart of the wine and walnut belt, he watched his wife pull a switch and blow in his new 1,200-ton blast furnace, named in her honor "the Bess." The blowing in of the pig-iron furnace, just eight months after Henry Kaiser broke ground for her where a pig-breeding farm had once flourished, meant that the West Coast for the first time in its history had a fully integrated steel plant...
...Kaiser had barely seen his steel dream fulfilled before he was dreaming new dreams. At his star-spangled blowing-in ceremony he told his guests that Fontana was still "just a seed": he wants to surround his steel mill with synthetic rubber plants, plastics production, etc. to round out a Kaiser empire that already embraces cement, magnesium, shipbuilding...
...didn't hear him till 1907, in Symphony Hall, Boston, when Rosenthal, of the stocky, powerful figure, eagle-beaked, massive-jawed, with black mane and Kaiser mustache, played the Liszt E-flat concerto, and Karl Muck leered over him on the conductor's stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...