Word: frazer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backlogs and long waits had disappeared in a hurry for many competitors (Kaiser, Frazer, Hudson, Lincoln). And with G.M. hoping in 1949 to make 10% more than the 2,048,019 cars & trucks it made in 1948, the buyer's market for G.M. was not far away either...
Willow Runs Slower. At Willow Run this week, four new lines of Kaiser-Frazer cars (a taxi, four-door convertible, "hardtop convertible," and "utility sedan") were rolled out in an atmosphere of deep gloom. Since early fall K-F had had to cut production from 800 cars a day to a current 675. It was seriously thinking about cutting back still more to 400 cars a day. Henry and Joe blamed the cutback on the Government's Regulation W under which car buyers must pay at least one-third down and the rest in no more than 18 months...
Autos. Henry Kaiser & Joe Frazer, who have been building cars at Willow Run under a lease with options to run for 20 years, made a deal with the War Assets Administration to buy the plant. They will get Willow Run for $15,100,000, about 35% of cost. Kaiser-Frazer will pay for the plant in 20 yearly installments...
...white supremacy, Robert Mallard was known to many white folks as a "biggety nigger." At 37, he was a traveling salesman, strong, brash and prosperous. His voluminous sales of caskets, embalming fluid, and clothing irked his white competitors. He owned a 36-acre farm, drove a flashy 1948 Frazer sedan. He made frequent trips North and was fond of calling himself "Mister Robert Mallard...
Steel for Henry. When Henry Kaiser fell out with Cyrus Eaton, his Kaiser-Frazer Corp. lost its big supplier of steel, Eaton's Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel Corp. To plug the gap, K-F last week paid some $3.6 million for the Phoenixville (Pa.) plant of the Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co., which has a capacity of around 26,000 tons a month of finished and semi-finished steel...