Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...414th Infantry who found the Princess Hermine, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, living in Rossala, Germany, promptly presented her with a copy of TIME. She told them she "knew the magazine well, but hadn't seen it for a long time...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp. last week leased (for five years) to the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. its $100,000,000 bomber plant at Willow Run, Mich. The new tenants will pay $500,000 rent the first year, $1.2 million a year after 1947, will use two-thirds of the plant's 5,052,177 square feet of floor space to manufacture the low-priced Kaiser automobile (now being designed). In the rest of the space the medium-priced Frazer car will be made, along with the Graham-Paige line of farm equipment...
...leader and Reichstag deputy; Eugene Schiffer, 85, Liberal Democrat and once Reich Finance and Justice Minister; Dr. Wilhelm Fitzner, Social Democrat, a lawyer who had served a three-year term in a concentration camp; Dr. Ferdinand Friedensburg, 58, Christian Democrat, former Berlin police official and ex-head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; Helmut Lehmann, Social Democrat, freed from a concentration camp by the Russians last April...
Last week Henry Kaiser yelped with pain when the RFC decided to put the loan on a businesslike basis. RFC's revamped terms were: 1) a 15-year 4% first mortgage of $69.5 million ($58 million for the marked-down value of the property, plus '$11.5 million which RFC offered to lend Kaiser for additions to Fontana); 2) a 25-year, no-interest second mortgage of $34.5 million; 3) a $10.3 million note to be secured by 103,180 shares of Kaiser Co. Inc. 4% first preferred stock. In short, RFC wanted its original loan repaid in full...
...Henry Kaiser, who knows all about publicity, promptly threatened to appeal his case to Congress, and got California's obliging Governor Earl Warren to order an investigation of RFC's shackling of western industry. Said Kaiser: "War costs should be written off as a part of the total economic waste of war and should not be charged against industry." On this point most industrialists agreed that he appeared to be on solid ground...