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...this connection we would like to advise that the Liberty vessel, S.S. Jason Lee, launched from the Kaiser Co.'s Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. on June 27, 1942, was christened by Mrs. Walter E. Harris, wife of Walter E. Harris, Negro swing shift porter. . . . HAL BABBITT Publicity Director Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. Portland...
Belgian Rutabagas. Often has Belgium been in the path of conquest (Caesar, Wellington, Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler). Last week the Belgians were starving again. Gaunt young mothers carried babies doomed to die. Where there was one pre-war tuberculous patient, there were now four. The wide-moated farms of the polders produced food for Germany. For the Belgians there were rutabagas. Said the Swedish Committee for Relief of Belgian Children: "The mortality among children in Belgium is now . . . as bad, if not worse, than in Greece...
...Henry Kaiser's Portland shipyards, the President watched the launching of the Joseph N. Teal-first ship in the world ever to hit the water ten days after keel laying (TIME, Oct. 5). He and bald Henry Kaiser sat in the open automobile, atop a wooden ramp, while torches burned through the steel plates that held the Teal in place. Down slid the ship. Mrs. Boettiger swung a champagne bottle so hard that she was drenched...
Colonel Lea and Captain MacPhail had a hard time slowing down after the Armistice. On New Year's Day, 1919, they had a brilliant idea: let's capture the Kaiser. Taking six of their Tennesseans in two touring cars, they drove to Brussels, where they talked Brand Whitlock, U.S. Minister to Belgium, into giving them a pass into Holland-on a "journalistic investigation...
...Edgar Kaiser-who runs his father's three shipyards at Portland, Ore.-last week slapped down another of his father's yards. Month ago Henry Kaiser's Richmond No. 2 on San Francisco Bay broke Son Edgar's previous records by completing a 10,500-ton Liberty ship in 29 days-a world's record...