Word: frazers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kaiser-Frazer Corp., which has been grubstaked by the RFC to just about all the Government money it can get for its auto business, struck it rich in the private money markets last week. It got a $25 million credit from California's Bank of America, Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank & Trust Co., and Manhattan's Bankers Trust...
...five-story Fifth Avenue building, decorated more like a Renaissance palace than a school. In the past 17 years Hartman has handed out awards to about 50 companies for "exemplifying the best in American design." Sample winners: Ford, Motorola, Ronson lighters, General Electric (for a plastic furniture covering), Kaiser-Frazer, Elgin, Parker, United Air Lines (for its Mainliner interiors), Packard, the Chicago Tribune (for "being inspirational to students of design...
When the new government lessened the tax load on foreigners in March 1950, adventurous U.S. investors put $15 million into the new nation. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. is putting up a $2,500,000 auto plant in the Haifa Bay area; Philco Corp. has built a refrigerator plant near Tel Aviv; General Shoe Corp. and General Tire & Rubber Co. each has a factory...
...federal till, last week proved that a pipeline can work both ways. His Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. handed a $37.4 million check to the General Services Administration, thus cleared itself of Government debt 23 years ahead of schedule. Except for $51 million still owed by the Kaiser-Frazer Corp., Kaiser's sprawling industrial empire of ten companies and 48 plants is completely off the Government hook. For its help in building or buying plants, Kaiser has paid the Government $250 million in principal, interest and rentals since the end of World...
Other Kaiser projects are also booming. Kaiser Steel Corp., which paid off its $123 million Government debt about five months ago, earned $4.3 million in the last six months of 1950. Even Kaiser-Frazer Corp. has picked up. Cars are rolling off the Willow Run assembly line at the rate of 900 a day (half Kaisers, half Henry J.s), and dealers have more orders than they can handle. With an estimated $500 million in defense orders on the books, including an Air Force contract for Fairchild Packet cargo planes, another for Wright aircraft engines, K-F seemed a likely candidate...