Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bamboo reeds, lucite and copper wire into her fabrics. Every summer Mrs. Liebes disconnects her phone for two months, returns to the trade in the fall with hundreds of sample designs for machine production by Goodall Fabrics. Among her present projects: designing stage curtains for prefab theaters that Henry Kaiser plans to ship abroad, working up fabrics to redecorate Matson luxury liners, for Consolidated Vultee's new 2O4-passenger airplanes, and for 1948 Ford and General Motors cars...
...maintain a rigid, good-sized, well-disciplined occupational force. So their cunning minds lead them to bow over backwards, knowing that this attitude will soon reassure us that these poor misled people have learned their lesson. So we will go home and live happily ever after-until another Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, or Hitler climbs onto a balcony and starts screaming...
Without Roach, the future of independent steelmen in the West looked dim. The only remaining major Western independent was Henry Kaiser, who cried that Consolidated's sale "could very easily have the effect of eliminating other small producers and myself." But many another industrialist hoped that the increase in Big Steel's fabricating facilities could permit Geneva to produce at capacity (1,300,000 tons a year), ultimately help bring down the price of Western steel...
...Graham's $8,500,000 bonded debt and will give Graham 750,000 shares of K-F stock (worth $6,000,000 on the current market). This.stock, along with what Graham got when K-F was formed, will give Graham a 21% interest in K-F. But Henry Kaiser and Joe Frazer will hold the voting rights on the stock until the Bank of America loan is paid...
Actually Henry and Joe's automaking venture was gaining little by shifting its money from one pocket to another. Joe Frazer, president of both companies, claimed that the shift would bring great savings by bringing production of the Kaiser Special and Frazer cars under one company. Actually production of both cars, which have exactly the same engines, bodies, chassis, was already a combined operation at Willow...