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...head of the shipyards Clay Bedford hit on the idea of building ships in prefabricated sections. At war's end, Bedford went to Willow Run as Kaiser-Frazer's production chief, soon became known as a brilliant "swap guy," chasing all over the U.S. for scarce materials to keep K-F's production lines rolling. When Wilson tapped him for the Office of Defense Mobilization, Bedford had just spent his first night in a new home in Oakland, Calif., where he was to manage K-F's West Coast defense production...
Other Kaiser projects are also booming. Kaiser Steel Corp., which paid off its $123 million Government debt about five months ago, earned $4.3 million in the last six months of 1950. Even Kaiser-Frazer Corp. has picked up. Cars are rolling off the Willow Run assembly line at the rate of 900 a day (half Kaisers, half Henry J.s), and dealers have more orders than they can handle. With an estimated $500 million in defense orders on the books, including an Air Force contract for Fairchild Packet cargo planes, another for Wright aircraft engines, K-F seemed a likely candidate...
...which sent our clipper ships around the world in spite of the pirates of Barbary, which put Perry into Nippon and John Paul Jones into the Russian Navy! More power to you! Let's wake up and quit thinking in terms of little loops!"-Philip R. White of Willow Grove...
...prodding, contracts were now rolling out faster from the Pentagon: G.M. got the job of building Republic's Thunderjet fighter planes; tank orders went out to Chrysler, G.M. and American Locomotive; Kaiser-Frazer got the job of making Fairchild's Cng troop-carrier planes at Willow Run. But it would be months before the companies got into actual production. And the great majority of businessmen who had no war orders and didn't know how long they would be able to make civilian goods could only plan their 1951 production and sales by guess...
...Tulsa, Okla. It would be the first time since World War II that any company other than Boeing has produced Boeing planes -but Douglas would not be able to get into production for 18 months at least. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. was dickering to build Fairchild C-119 transports at Willow Run; even General Motors was said to have a deal cooking to build Republic F-84 jet fighters...