PRODUCTION: The Kaiser Week

Building Henry J. Kaiser last week was in top form, busily making news from Manhattan to Venezuela.

Down with Hughes. First off, WPB bashed one of The Builder's pet projects, the supercolossal yoo-passenger plane that he has been building In collaboration with lean young Howard Robard Hughes, the multimillionaire oilman, moviemaker,* round-the-world flyer and plane designer.

In November 1943, WPB turned a critical eye on the $18,000,000 contract for three 200-ton planes, had a good mind to cancel it (TIME, Nov. 8). But WPBoss Don Nelson was dissuaded by Flyer Hughes's ice-cold...