Mike Gee: Great Individuals & Works

Henry Kaiser: Builder of the Modern American West


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Timestamps:

(2:00): Henry Kaiser earns $1.20 / hr

(5:00): Kaiser's first business (photography)

(12:00): Kaiser gets fired – so he paves nearly every road on the West Coast and Cuba

(17:20): How Kaiser builds the Hoover Dam

(20:40): Kaiser builds 2,710 Liberty Ships for WWII faster than anyone else

(23:50): Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Program

(24:45): Kaiser crushes JP Morgan's US Steel monopoly

(30:00): A national celebrity with endless ideas

(34:00): Home appliances, fibreglass, dishwashers, lawnmowers, easy-to-assemble houses.

(35:00): Kaiser competes with the Big Four Automobile oligopoly

(38:00): "Spruce Goose" Cargo Planes with Howard Hughes

(40:00): Kaiser crushes Alcoa's aluminum monopoly

(41:00): Kaiser becomes one of the largest magnesium producers w/ Hansgirg Process

(43:00): American Medical Association tries to destroy Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Program

(45:28): Kaiser goes back overseas:

  • Latin America's Highways

  • Shipbuilding with China

  • Shipping Cement for the US Military to the Pacific

  • Automobile manufacturing in Argentina

  • The locks on the Panama Canal

  • Tata Iron Works' expansion in India

  • The Snowy Hydro Hydroelectric Dam in Australia


(49:00): Building Hawaii

(53:00): The Sunset Years (breaking hydroplane racing records, building holiday homes)



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