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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...
...Roosevelt plump for Mead meant a battle with Jim Farley, once his closest political friend. It meant kicking the pins from under John Bennett, once a Roosevelt protégé. And big, bald, genial Jim Farley was determined to make this a real fight. After all, he had the delegates (up to now). Within an hour after Jim Mead announced his candidacy, Jim Farley issued a bone-bruising statement. He cited nine occasions on which Jim Mead had said he did not want to be Governor of New York; he said Jim Mead was "scared" of the job, said...
...Washington insiders were aware of another figure: bald, bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London and Palestine, noted chemist, noted Zionist. Dr. Weizmann had a date in Washington to confer with Presidential Adviser Judge Samuel I. Rosenman. Reports were that Dr. Weizmann, who did not claim to know all the facts about synthetic rubber, nevertheless knew more of them than any other one man, perhaps could set the record straight...
...bald fact of the matter is that the plane manufacturers are not in a position to go into an assembly-line production of this new type without extensive construction and tooling. Glenn Martin has said it would take two years to build the plant...
Captain Lyttelton's maiden ministerial speech, on March 24, was so contradictory, so shocking in its bald admission of things undone that one M.P. demanded his impeachment. Last week M.P.s were still bored by the Minister's indecisive presentation, but they perked up their ears at what...