Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry J. Kaiser's chief worries as a steelmaker have been over iron ore for his plant at Fontana, Calif. This week Kaiser felt that these worries were ended. After more than two years of haggling he had acquired mining rights to famed Eagle Mountain, best source of ore in the West...
...surprise was the spread between the bids; they ranged from $38,750,000 to $302,000,000 (but the latter bid, put in by Blue Star Enterprises, Inc., was later called a mistake). Another surprise was the fact that Henry J. Kaiser, who has said early & often that he was planning to buy Geneva, put in no bid. Best guess was that H.J. thinks the $115,000,000 he still owes RFC is about all he can handle...
...Barkley, the high chamber floundered bravely for a while in a dismal sea of statistics. When North Dakota's Langer took the floor next day for the opposition, the senatorial audience dropped to a single listener. The Senators discussed wheat prices in Kansas, the profits of Henry J. Kaiser, the sex life of Government employes and, when time hung heavy, the loan...
...with Germany's most humorous weekly. Simplicissimus had once numbered Thomas Mann among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government officials . . . officers . . . Junkers [and] the subservient spirit of the small bourgeoisie." In this tradition, Simplicissimus also faithfully recorded each new step in Adolf...
Died. Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery, 53, wartime vice chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. He steered Henry Kaiser into shipbuilding, plumped loudly for a long-range program to make the U.S. a postwar maritime power...