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Once before big, bald Henry J. Kaiser, the West Coast's dam-building, shipbuilding, build-anything tycoon, had blitzed Washington into giving him what he wanted. That was when he wangled $50,000,000 from Jesse Jones to build a steel plant to supply his brand-new amateur shipyards. Now he was out after bigger stakes. He had broached direct to the public his bold proposal to build 5,000 giant cargo planes (TIME, July 27). Now he descended on Washington with the avowed intention of creating public clamor for his breath-taking scheme...
...Builder Kaiser, rolling swiftly about the town, testified before two Senate committees, conferred with WPBoss Donald Nelson, spoke at a National Press Club luncheon, held a two-hour press conference for women reporters in his chart-littered suite at the Shoreham Hotel. The women were fascinated by a man who talked facts to them, who did not talk down to them. His proposal even crashed the society page of the Washington Post, under that paper's new wartime policy of writing social notes almost exclusively about people active in the war effort...
...with the aid of the aviation industry and with the equipment already in place in the shipyards we can have the assembly line in production at six months or less and it could be in maximum production at ten months or less." Kaiser's proposal sounded fantastic, but the U.S. has learned better than to scoff at the production promises of the man who built Boulder Dam in record time, and whose latest feat has been to cut the time for a Victory ship to one-sixth of the average for World War I freighters...
...Henry Kaiser is not the only big shipbuilder who expects to turn aircraftmaker. Andrew Jackson Higgins announced that, although the Maritime Commission had just closed his huge New Orleans shipyard for lack of steel, the yard would be reopened to construct flying boats. Higgins had just talked with Kaiser, will soon meet him in Washington for a three-way confab with President Roosevelt. When & if Kaiser and Higgins (and maybe others) turn out flying boats as fast as they say they can, the United Nations might begin...
...lack of steel Henry Kaiser's Oregon shipyard produced five fewer merchant ships last month than its full capacity. Within the last fortnight, Todd Shipyards had steel snatched away from it for some other purpose allegedly more necessary than building ships...