Word: kaiser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern, 62, fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and only member of the royal family to join the Nazi party, which he served as an SA officer until Goring kicked him out in the 1934 purge; of a lung ailment; in Stuttgart...
There were even some price cuts. The first postwar dip in the price of zinc (from 17½? to 16? a Ib.) was quickly passed on with lower prices on galvanized steel products. What few premium prices remained were gradually being dropped. Henry Kaiser cut the price of steel from his Fontana, Calif, plant $10 to $39 a ton, thereby wiping out increases made last August...
...spur slumping sales, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. last week took a bold step: it cut auto prices 10% to 15%, by far the biggest reductions made by any automaker since the war. The slash brought the list price of the lowest-priced model, the Kaiser special, to $1,995-a drop of $333. The smallest reduction was $198 on the Frazer. The company said that "starting up" costs had been absorbed and that steel end auto parts were now available at lower prices...
...vast majority of U.S. gallerygoers had never seen such a collection before and never would again. They had been making the most of the world art masterpieces which once hung in Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...
...close of the Toledo exhibition next week the collection will start on its road back. The Department of the Army will ticket it for Wiesbaden, in the U.S. zone, but it will not go back to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin-at least not for the present. This is not so much because of the difficulty of shipping art by the airlift as because the Army still holds the paintings "in trust for the German people." As matters now stand, Berlin is a poor place to lodge such a trust...