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...Perhaps the stark horror of these facts can be better impressed on the gulled public by noting that the combat airplanes are Kaiser-Frazer 2's, the tanks were used to water Jefferson's horse on Inaugural Day, 1801, and the generals are not used to water in any form...
...Senate Committee probing RFC last week drew a bead on one of RFC's best customers-Kaiser-Frazer Corp. In a 30-page report, the Committee charged RFC should not have made a $34 million loan to K-F in October 1949. Even though K-F would have gone bankrupt without it, said the Committee, K-F's prospects of repaying out of earnings were so dim that "the public [interest]...did not justify the use of public funds to continue operation of K-F as an auto company." Following the first loan, K-F tapped...
...more than 3,200 pages of court testimony, Henry J. Kaiser finally laid an old enemy low. He won his breach of contract suit against Otis & Co., Financier Cyrus Eaton's Cleveland underwriting firm. In 1948, Otis & Co. signed up to help float 675,000 shares of Kaiser-Frazer stock at $11.50 a share; under the contract, the underwriters could bail out if anyone should try to block the stock issue in court. At the last minute Eaton bailed out, using as an excuse a suit against K-F to prevent the stock issue on grounds that Kaiser...
...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...