Word: frazers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cruise. Sam Luttrell, a retired Army officer in business in the Virgin Islands, had bought the yacht, a 96-ft. converted subchaser, at a Long Island shipyard. He hired an ex-Air Force officer from Miami for his navigator, and took on four Puerto Ricans as hands. With Gustave Frazer, a brawny Virgin Islander who worked for Luttrell, as engineer, the Luttrell family and their crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south via the sheltered passages inside the Atlantic coastline. One morning last week, the ship chugged down Bogue Sound into...
Sears, Roebuck and Kaiser-Frazer have one thing in common: they have both lost money selling cars. Forty-one years ago, the Sears catalogue offered a two-cylinder car for less than $500, which would whiz along "from one to 25 miles per hour [on] resilient, hard-rubber tires." Sears dropped its auto after losing $21,000 on it in 1912. But Kaiser-Frazer, which has been making cars for six years and lost $13 million last year alone, is not that easily discouraged. Last week K-F made a deal that put Sears back in the auto business...
Before Christmas, Sears retail stores will start selling the Allstate, a new car made for it by Kaiser-Frazer. The car will look like K-F's four-cylinder Henry J, differing only in trim and other incidentals. Sears did not set a retail price but it now sells for $1,362 f.o.b. Detroit. Sears will sell it in 17 cities in the South and Southwest...
...Golden Bough, by J. G. Frazer (June 22, 1890): ". . . A most enjoyable and instructive essay...
...head of the shipyards Clay Bedford hit on the idea of building ships in prefabricated sections. At war's end, Bedford went to Willow Run as Kaiser-Frazer's production chief, soon became known as a brilliant "swap guy," chasing all over the U.S. for scarce materials to keep K-F's production lines rolling. When Wilson tapped him for the Office of Defense Mobilization, Bedford had just spent his first night in a new home in Oakland, Calif., where he was to manage K-F's West Coast defense production...