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...year of need. Some yards broke records. Some yards expanded like mushrooms overnight. Some builders bettered the Commission's 105-day schedule for building Liberty Ships. Bethlehem-Fairfield Yard at Baltimore announced a 75-day goal. The West Coast's hurry-up man, Henry J. Kaiser, entrepreneur, builder of dams, and now of ships, claimed a record of 81 days at iris Portland, Ore. shipyard...
Guerrilla's story is an action tale of how one guerrilla movement grew big enough to drive the Kaiser's spike-helmeted legions out of the heart of the Ukraine in World War I. Its photography is undistinguished, its climaxes sometimes reminiscent of a Hollywood Western, but it has drive and spirit, occasional good humor, and a fine feeling of what the Russian people fight...
Prince Louis Ferdinand, 33-year-old grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II and onetime mechanic in the Ford plant at Detroit, now an officer in the German air corps, was reported a prisoner of war in Canada...
...British jobs were curtain raisers. The Commission's Liberty shipbuilding soon got under way. First to be delivered: the Patrick Henry from the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard in Baltimore. An endless brood of Liberty ships, unbeautiful but worthy, began to plop into the waters. The fabulous Henry J. Kaiser (dams, concrete, magnesium) spat on his hands, went to work at Portland, Ore. Under Kaiser's son, Edgar, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. yards were launching two ships a week by February 1942. By the middle of March the yard had launched...
...among subcontractors. Many hulls slid down the ways, then waited months for subcontractors to deliver propulsion machinery, ventilating & electrical equipment, pumps, the dozen-and-one other vital innards of a modern cargo vessel. The supply of steel had West Coast builders worried, too. Said a spokesman for the Kaiser yard: "They don't realize back East how much we need that steel. They don't realize how fast we can turn out ships in Portland...