Jake Schneider, age 17, of Dover, Del., for his question:

WHAT DID HENRY KAISER DO?

Henry Kaiser was a famous American industrialist who had a very colorful life.

From 1914 to 1929 Kaiser headed a highway construction company. In 1931 he directed the construction of Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River and subsequently the giant Bonneville Dam in Oregon and the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington.

During the time of World War II Kaiser managed Pacific coast shipyards that handled a great deal of the wartime shipbuilding for the United States government. He dramatically increased the speed of ship construction.

In 1945, in association with the automobile manufacturer Joseph Frazer, Kaiser organized the Kaiser Frazer Corp., which was for a period of time one of the largest automobile manufacturing concerns in the United States.

Later Kaiser was the founder of Kaiser Steel and the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp.

Born in 1882, Kaiser died at the age of 85 in 1967.