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...have the assembly line in production at six months or less and it could be in maximum production at ten months or less." Kaiser's proposal sounded fantastic, but the U.S. has learned better than to scoff at the production promises of the man who built Boulder Dam in record time, and whose latest feat has been to cut the time for a Victory ship to one-sixth of the average for World War I freighters...
...smart Stephen D. Bechtel and natty John A. McCone took it over in the fall of 1940. Their first job was driving 60,000 pilings into the mud (a world's record for one job), but that was easy enough after their experience with Henry Kaiser on Boulder Dam and the San Francisco Bay bridge. The real problem was finding and training 40,000 workmen, less than 1% of whom had ever worked in a shipyard before...
...Felix, kept an eye out for a still younger brother Julius, who was just finishing college. His faith in the Kahn family was not misplaced. Louis is still Albert's chief executive and right-hand man. Felix worked with the famous "six companies" group that built Boulder Dam. Moritz, now dead, supervised most of the work on Russia's Five-Year Plan. The young Julius, later an executive with Republic Steel, invented a new and more precisely calculable method of reinforcing concrete which eventually made Albert Kahn the outstanding U.S. authority on concrete construction...
Independent engineers agreed that Douglas Dam was needed; so did President Roosevelt, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, everybody on SPAB. OPM's Bill Batt called the one-man fight against Douglas Dam an "irreparable blow to the national defense program"; McKel- lar's constituents bombarded him with angry letters. Finally he had to give...
Last winter, after Pearl Harbor, the old Senator saw his chance. Lilienthal had decided to build Douglas Dam, on the French Broad River near Knoxville, to get another 100,000 kw. of power for aluminum expansion in a hurry. When McKellar saw that the land that would be flooded was 12,000 acres owned mostly by influential canning interests, who were his friends, he balked. Douglas Dam was blocked for two months...