Word: kaiser
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Born. To George Mansfield (Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia), 34, Kaiser Wilhelm II's Anglicized grandson, and the former Lady Brigid Guinness, 26, daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer ("Guinness is good for you"): their first child, a son; in Essex, England. Name: William Mansfield...
Like a nervous puppeteer, Henry J. Kaiser last week jerked one promise off the automotive stage, hastily substituted another. The long-ballyhooed front-wheel-drive Kaiser, promised to car-hungry America this summer, was sidetracked. The cause: "tooling" troubles. In its place, Kaiser last week offered the Kaiser Special, a conventional rear-wheel-drive car, in appearance similar to the Frazer...
Newsmen who received this information at a hastily whipped-up press conference in Detroit's Statler Hotel were not surprised. (Some who had visited Willow Run last week had seen only one car on the assembly line.) Why Kaiser would put aside one car because of "tooling" difficulties, then start a new one for which more tooling must be done, was not explained...
Probing drew little information from angry Mr. Kaiser, who seemed to think that any questions about Kaiser-Frazer's production troubles amounted to persecution. But on the subject of steel, heretofore a sensitive point, Henry became a bit more expansive. Although he had said in March that he had plenty of steel, he is now shipping it east from Fontana...
Deepest thrusts were at the Kaiser-Frazer Corp., which has sold $53 million worth of stock, has yet to mass-produce a car. Said a Bawl Street Journal ad: "See the Kaiser or Frazer before you buy! We'd like to see one ourselves some day. There's real no-driving pleasure in ordering a Kaiser-Frazer car. . . . Besides, your deposit will draw interest each January and July 1 while you wait for delivery. Kaiser, Frazer, Superman & Thurston. 'Automobiles Floated on Water.' While you wait for our cars-Take a ride in our stock...