Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stockholders of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. met last week to go through a wearisomely familiar routine: elect a new management, its seventh in three years. Ship builder Henry J. Kaiser, his job done (to get Brewster finally into production), was leaving. He gave out the cheerful news that Brewster, after two years of losses, was finally making money. But he warned that this might not last, that the Navy might end its contract for Corsair fighters, the only contract Brewster held...
...Navy made no attempt at a quick settlement of Brewster's tangled finances (the maze of conflicting claims between the Navy and Brewster total upwards of $20,000,000). Although he had left the company in the nick of time, ex-Boss Kaiser deplored the Navy's action of throwing 10,000 men out of work on three days' notice. With a look at Congress, which is making slow progress in passing a bill covering contract terminations, he warned: "This is a situation which many companies will face...
...founder of the Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived by police van. Among them: famed, shrewd Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, good friend of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; the Silver Shirts' William Dudley Pelley; onetime Bundleader Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze...
...Henry J. Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. went through the renegotiation wringer last week. The wringer squeezed out $6,322,954 from its $23,958,504 profit on its first 181 Liberty ships. Remaining profit per ship: $25,000. The Maritime Commission declared this the standard by which all yards in the original Liberty-ship program will be renegotiated. The Commission estimates the cost of Liberties at some $157 per deadweight tons v. $255 for the Hog Islanders of World War I. Builders' profits, if kept to the Kaiser level...
...advance into little Manipur lies the sprawling province of Bengal, Bose's home. Beyond the immediate threat to Allied arms lies the chilling possibility that the Japs mean what they say when they promise 350,000,000 Indians immediate independence. Well may the canny Japanese recall how Kaiser Wilhelm shoved Lenin into a tottering Russian empire, watched him bring the structure down...