By Stephen B. Adams
Within the Forties, the identify Henry J. Kaiser used to be magic. according to the good fortune of his shipyards, Kaiser was once hailed through the nationwide media because the strength in the back of a 'can-do' construction miracle and credited through the yankee public with doing extra to assist President Roosevelt win international battle II than the other civilian. Kaiser additionally equipped an empire in development, cement, magnesium, metal, and aluminum—all in line with executive contracts, executive loans, and adjustments in executive regulations.In this e-book, Stephen Adams bargains Kaiser's tale because the first distinctive case learn of 'government entrepreneurship.' Taking a clean examine the beginning of contemporary business-government family members, he explores the symbiotic connection solid among FDR and Kaiser. Adams indicates that whereas Kaiser capitalized on possibilities supplied by means of the expansion of the government, FDR present in Kaiser an business accomplice whose corporations embodied New Deal pursuits. the results of a confluence of management coverage and entrepreneurial zeal, Kaiser's dramatic upward push illustrates the real function of governmental family in American entrepreneurial good fortune.
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ISBN O-8078-2358-9 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. , 1882- 2. Businessmen United States Biography. 3. Industrial policy United States History. I. Title. II. Series: Business, society & the state. 092 dc21 [B]96-53391 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 Page v TO MADELEINE Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii 1 Introduction to a Government Entrepreneur 1 2 The Education of Henry Kaiser 14 3 Government Entrepreneurship Comes of Age 33 4 A Rendezvous with Bureaucracy 63 5 Good Old American Know-Who 87 6 "Fabulous" Kaiser 107 7 To Mars and Back 123 8 Send for Kaiser 145 Epilogue: A Reversal of Fortune 173 Conclusion 182 Notes 187 Bibliography 219 Index 229 A section of illustrations follows p.
We spent millions of dollars we did not have. . "37 Although Roosevelt oversaw the takeoff of the modern bureaucratic state, he had little patience for many of its organizational features. As president, Roosevelt devised another way to circumvent a recalcitrant bureaucracy: he created new agencies to do what he wanted. While Roosevelt established agencies in the public sector, Kaiser created enterprises in the private sector. Kaiser's saga reflected not just a change in opportunities available to entrepreneurs but an approach to obtaining government business at odds with many interpretations of American business-government relations.
15 As recently Page 5 as 1940, western steel consumption was nearly four times that of regional production. 16 For much of the twentieth century, the political economy of the American West has been a great paradox. The two chief political goals have been to achieve economic independence from the East but also to secure money from the federal government, especially for water projects. Presumably, those projects and the industry they would attract would pave the way for regional economic independence.