Word: kaisers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Henry J. Kaiser asked yet another: "If mankind is to build and grow even greater, it must have freedom to employ to the full the creativeness of hand and mind which God has conferred upon...
...West Coast conference ended in a clash of two viewpoints. The aircraft men wanted Kaiser to show them designs, tell them how he planned to put them on the production line. That was the conventional way of operating in the aircraft industry...
...special WPB committee of aircraft experts had met with Kaiser on the West Coast, to study his plans and report back to Donald Nelson. These men-WPB Adviser Grover Loening, Producers Glenn L. Martin, Donald Wills Douglas, John K. Northrop-had not been impressed. They found that Kaiser had no engineers seriously at work on cargo planes, that he did not plan to convert his shipyards, that what he wanted was a Government-built plant where he could turn out a plane designed by the aircraft industry itself...
...Kaiser is not conventional; he is not a designer or engineer but merely a builder-and a fabulously good one. His attitude was: Just tell me what you want me to build. I'll figure...
Cold to Lukewarm. Donald Nelson had become skeptical; he demanded that Kaiser produce detailed plans. Kaiser did not have them: he was leaving the designing and engineering up to Howard Hughes; mass-production details would have to wait. But three days of tumultuous conferences gave Washington a chance to hear and understand the Kaiser viewpoint, and at week's end the atmosphere had warmed a little...