Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 26--A strike settlement agreement was reached by the Kaiser Corp. and the United Steelworkers of America today...
...Kaiser's separate negotiations marked a break in the industry line maintained during the 104-day-old steel strike...
...still trying to find a kernel of agreement that might serve as the starting point for a last-minute solution. McDonald trimmed his demands for a two-year wage and benefits increase of 28½? down to a 19¾? package-the level at which California's Edgar Kaiser had urged his fellow steel men to settle. Industry's Cooper stonily told the fact finders that McDonald's package would really cost 33?, and the proposal was "unacceptable"; in its place he stood on a threeyear, 30? package (which the steelworkers said was worth only...
...idea to General Motors. He put the Corvair wheels in motion way back in 1952, a most unlikely time. Detroit then was riding a crest of chrome, and it looked as if anyone who bucked the trend to bigness would get honked right out of the industry. Henry Kaiser's chromeless little Henry J. was a flop. Romney's Ramblers were losing money. Just a few years before, Chevy had started to tool for a compact model, the Cadet, then decided that the market was too small, and scrapped it. But Cole, at that time Chevy...
...only Jew ever to be accepted by Parisian society without being immensely rich." Perhaps the most decadent and diabolical habitue of the salons was Comte Robert de Montesquieu, the original of Proust's depraved but magnificently Lear-like Baron de Charlus. Montesquiou was tall and thin, with a Kaiser mustache...