Word: frazers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Workers from party-line unions-the Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers, the United Office and Professional Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the Marine Cooks and Stewards-canvassed busily for "peace" signatures. U.A.W. Communists in the big Ford local circulated petitions on the assembly lines. At the Kaiser-Frazer plant, angry U.A.W. unionists flung one peace collector out bodily. Earnest youths turned up on campuses in New York, Chicago and Austin, Texas. In some states, impatient cops, out of sheer exasperation, arrested canvassers on charges of disorderly conduct...
...Ford Motor Co. 2. Packard Motor Car Co. 3. General Motors. 4. Chrysler. 5. Kaiser-Frazer...
Looking for an ear-catching name for his new, lower-priced car, Automaker Henry J. (for John) Kaiser set up a $200,000 contest. The result was prodigious: some 450,000 people submitted names. Last week Kaiser-Frazer picked the winner. It wasn't easy, since about 100 contestants had submitted the same name. K-F awarded first prize of $10,000 to Mrs. Charles Atkinson of Denver because she had written the best 25-word reason for her choice. The winning name: Henry...
...Excuses are found to make loans, and in large amounts, that under no circumstances can be justified. [RFC] is being prostituted when making such loans as the Kaiser-Frazer [$44 million], Lustron [$37.5 million], Texmass [$10 million] and Waltham Watch Co. [$6 million...
...Between them they also control four other profitable companies: Permanente Cement Co., with a 30.4% stock interest; Kaiser Metal Products Inc. (55%), Kaiser Community Homes (50%), and Consolidated Builders Inc. (22.5%). On the other hand, the two companies own only 9.5% interest in the money-losing, automaking Kaiser-Frazer Corp...