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Show prises. No one man can keep up with any great mass of details without becoming- hopelessly Involved In-volved but business develops into large operations when executives delegate responsibility and authority author-ity to competent assistants. KAISER DELEGATES AUTHORITY TO COMPETENT MEN The amazing industrial empire that has been created by Henry J. Kaiser employs a quarter of a million persons and includes a wide diversity of enterprise. Recently, Mr. Kaiser said that the organization included the largest lar-gest cement plant in the world, two asphalt plants, a dozen or fifteen large concrete plants, a calcining dolomite plant, a ferro-silicon ferro-silicon plant, a steamship line, two magnesium plants, several chemical chemi-cal by-products plants, a large compensation insurance company, seven hospitals, a group of aviation avia-tion plants, the largest sand and gravel plant, a big iron and fabricating fabri-cating steel plant, and industrial equipment, a turbine plant, a powder pow-der plant and more than eight shipyards. - The reader may wonder how Mr. Kaiser manages to keep up with the huge industrial system. The answer is that he does not. He explains it rather easily, saying, "It really isn't much of a problem if you are willing to give other people responsibility and authority. author-ity. This sentence contains valuable inf orma t i o n to individuals attempting at-tempting to control diverse enter- |