Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...host at the outsize picture window, looking down toward Salzburg and the Ostmark, once called Austria. It was in the Austro-Hungarian Navy before World War I that horse-loving Horthy got his admiral's stripes. It was from the hands of this onetime fellow subject of Kaiser Franz Josef that Horthy got the territorial plums which had made World War II so far so profitable. As he listened now to the Führer's rasping voice, Horthy knew a dream was ended. He shook his head. Hitler pounded the big table. Enraged, Horthy pounded right back...
Irrepressible, indefatigable Henry J. Kaiser is fixing to cop the first postwar contract in the shipbuilding industry. The contract: 30 diesel cargo ships designed for the Netherlands East Indies coastwise trade. The production schedule: building to begin "long before" year's end. Henry and the Dutch, equally shrewd, figured the ships could be used for war cargoes before the Jap is licked, and certainly right after he is thrown out of the Indies...
...else. Asked where the steel would come from, he said: "I don't think they're just going on stockpiling it." Asked about manpower, he said: "We will use existing personnel; if they leave us, we'll recruit others." Forthwith A.P. reported from Portland, Ore. that Kaiser recruiters were seeking 15,200 more workers in the Midwest, the Southwest, and even in Washington, D.C. Asked about Army & Navy permission, he said he had not consulted them-"Why should...
...motives, H.J. solemnly, sagely reversed the Greek proverb: In time of peace, prepare for war. And, said he, the Dutch deal was "only the beginning." Other rumored steps in the Kaiser "conversion": orders from Norway, Sweden, Venezuela...
Last week President Kaiser, announcing his resignation, alleged that "the production emergency . . . task has been accomplished." But, since Brewster's Navy Corsair contract is still only one-third completed, some other observations in Kaiser's explanation to stockholders were more pertinent. Fact is that Brewster is in a financial wilderness compounded of 1) Navy allegations of overcharges; 2) Brewster allegations of Navy underpayments; 3) British and Brewster counterclaims on terminated dive-bomber contracts; 4) a strong feeling on the part of Brewster's underprivileged stockholders that everyone has been underpaying them. Besides that, and despite Kaiser...