Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bedside & Laboratories. Page began his work in 1937 at the Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research at Indianapolis City Hospital, after three years at Munich's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and six years at the Rockefeller Institute. With Canadian-born Dr. Arthur Curtis Corcoran, who has been teamed with him since 1936, Page made important discoveries on the workings of renin,* an enzyme secreted by the kidney when it is starved of blood. An injection of renin raises the blood pressure. It also alters the fat-protein combinations in the blood in such a way as to encourage atherosclerosis...
...young captain on the bridge of Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern had ambitions to match those of his master: both wanted to bust the bully-bold British Navy. In World War I Hamburg-born Erich Raeder, promoted to chief of staff in the Kaiser's brand-new cruiser squadrons, had a brief taste of glory in the battles of Doggerbank and Jutland (in which the British were powerfully mauled), but at war's end the barnacled fleet had to scuttle itself to avoid capture. Returning from Versailles. Raeder said: "Just wait 25 years...
Chrysler Corp. announced that it will build near Macedonia, Ohio an $85 million body-stamping plant, with enough capacity to supply all passenger-car divisions with fenders, body panels, deck lids and doors. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. will spend $90 million to expand its Ravenswood, W. Va. sheet-and-foil plant, add to other facilities in Maryland, Louisiana and Washington. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. decided to put out $100 million worth of new securities over the next two years to keep up with the growing population and record construction boom...
...first approach was to envelop himself in clouds of unbridled imagination. He was the Kaiser, he was a dashing young prince, he was even a lover, he was anything he could or would think of. Occasionally, costumes that his godfather supplied gave material wings for these flights of fancy...
...select group of four U.S. aluminum producers-Alcoa, Reynolds Metals, Kaiser and Anaconda-last week was joined by a fifth, the Harvey Machine Co. of Torrance, Calif. President Leo Harvey, who claims to be the biggest independent U.S. aluminum fabricator and has long wanted to produce his own raw material, signed a deal with the Government to build a $65 million, 54,000-ton-a-year aluminum plant at The Dalles...