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Before the present building was built, the old Weld Boat Club existed on the same site. In those days, the dam below the Charles River Basin had not yet been built and the Charles was a muddy, tide-water river, which overflowed its banks into the swampy land around...
Michael Griffin in his article, "What is the matter with the people?" (TIME, July 20) has hit the nail on the head. . . . Believe me, the people are getting pretty dam' tired of selfish interests, political skimeroodle, and red tape. We want action, not oratory; sacrifices, not parades; victories, not flag waving. And we want it not after the elections, not next week, not tomorrow...
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...
Henry Kaiser was working at the same feverish pitch which permitted him to build Boulder Dam two years ahead of schedule, by which he cut the time for constructing a Liberty ship from 105 down to 46 days. He was frankly indulging in a vast piece of bluff; he frankly wanted the Army and the Administration to call his hand; thus, in the old American way, he would get a chance to make good or shut up. Bluntly he told the Senate Committees that his plan would not cut into the bomber program. He said he was planning to prepare...
More important than the trade pact was a $12,000,000 Export-Import Bank credit for construction of a sorely needed hydroelectric plant at Rio Negro dam, not far from industrially growing Montevideo...