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Henry J. Kaiser was back in Washington this week, heaving his big bulk around corridors and offices, trying to pound his cargo-plane home for once & all. The net result, it appeared, would be not enough to satisfy eager Henry Kaiser-perhaps an order for three prototypes of a new cargo plane (bigger than the 70-ton Mars) designed by his project partner, Airman Howard Hughes-a far cry from Kaiser's original offer to get right to work on an order for 5,000 planes. But considering the painstaking nature of aircraft engineering-with its many slips between...
Kaiser's trip to Washington was a saga in itself. When the train that he was supposed to take pulled out of the Los Angeles Union Station, he was just starting to broadcast a Labor Day message from the Beverly Hills Hotel, taking his cargo-plane visions right to the people...
...with Kaiser on the West Coast, to study his plans and report back to Donald Nelson. These men-WPB Adviser Grover Loening, Producers Glenn L. Martin, Donald Wills Douglas, John K. Northrop-had not been impressed. They found that Kaiser had no engineers seriously at work on cargo planes, that he did not plan to convert his shipyards, that what he wanted was a Government-built plant where he could turn out a plane designed by the aircraft industry itself...
...basis) turned out last year, war needs would gobble it up. Beech Aircraft Corp. has already begun production on an all-plywood bomber trainer. Fairchild has been turning out all-plywood primary trainers for some time. Curtiss-Wright is using the same stuff to make twin-engined cargo airplanes...
...Plywood Corp., told stockholders that their company's "products had found their way into so many war uses that the company could not supply more than a fraction of the demand, despite substantial increases in production facilities." A few production uses are: gliders, torpedo boats, mine sweepers, cargo vessels, army landing boats, defense housing, pipe, chemical vats, shipping containers...