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Name: Henry J. Kaiser

Age: 56

School: some good school

Income: A lot

Birthday: January 30th

Zodiac: Aquarius

Occupation: American Industrialist



Early in February 1942, American newspapers reported the end of automobile production for

private use. The nation's automobile plants had been retooled to produce tanks, planes, boats,

and command cars. Across the nation, factories were converted to war production facilities. A

maker of mechanical pencils produced bomb parts. A bedspread company made mosquito netting and

a soft drink company was filling shells with explosives. At the end of 1942, I Henry J. Kaiser

had built seven massive and new shipyards.These ship yards turned out cargo carriers, tankers,

troop transports and baby aircraft carriers (Danzer et al. 565). Later that year, I invited reporters to Way One in my Richmond, California shipyard to watch my workers

assemble Hull 440. I managed to have this ship finished

in four days. I used factory made parts that were really

quick to assemble. Other Kaiser Shipyards were

located in Ryan Point (Vancouver) on the Columbia River

in Washington state and in Portland, Oregon.

A smaller vessel was turned out in 71 hours and 40 minutes from

the Vancouver yard on November 16, 1942 ("Answers"). The Kaiser hulls also became

America's escort carriers, over one hundred small aircraft carriers which sailed into harm's way

in both the Pacific and the Atlantic Wars.

__Citations__

- Danzer A. Gerald, et al. __The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century__. Illinois.

McDougal Littel, 2003.

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