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...Streamliner was streaking toward the mountains when the bull-necked builder of bridges, dams and ships came to his peroration, from Tennyson's Locksley Hall...
Chilly to Cold. Again, as he did a month ago, the big builder-promoter plunged into a hectic round of conferences. But if his first reception in Washington had been chilly, this time it was cold...
...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...
...experts dug up more reasons why Henry J. Kaiser can't possibly build cargo planes, the big West Coast engineer found a sure-we'll-do-it partner. To his aid, on a 50-50 basis, came enormously wealthy, enormously successful Howard Hughes, speed flyer, technician, designer, builder, young man of vision, and a hardheaded businessman...
...sullen, soundless darkness. Below the earth, behind great blackout curtains, men still work with concrete and steel. But the hard-eyed German gunners behind the barbed wire on the beaches, the spectacled technicians at the radio detectors on the cliffs, no longer feel the spirit of Todt, the fortress builder. At night-almost every night-there is fighting to be done, and any night may bring the first crashing thrust of invasion. As soldiers always do, men on the late watches talk of home, of furloughs and women, of comrades on other fields. But the spirit that stands beside them...