Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special converter. The oxygen accelerates the refining action of the metal, burns out impurities, uses less scrap metal. An oxygen vessel costs only about one-half of open-hearth facilities, turns out steel ingots in 35 minutes, v. ten to twelve hours for the open-hearth process. Kaiser Steel (which holds the U.S. rights to the patent for the process), Jones & Laughlin, McLouth Steel and Acme Steel have installed direct-oxygen furnaces. U.S. Steel and all other major companies are studying the process. Steel experts predict that by 1965 it will account for 35% of world steel capacity...
Though he was born a German, the British scarcely questioned the devotion of young Refugee Klaus Fuchs to democratic principles. His father was a Quaker theologian who had successively defied both the Kaiser and Adolf Hitler; his sister killed herself after helping her husband escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Young Fuchs was a brilliant theoretical physicist, won doctorates at both Bristol and Edinburgh. When World War II broke out, 31-year-old Fuchs, after first being interned in Canada, became a naturalized British subject and was soon recruited for Britain's secret atomic research program...
...Biggest examples (out of hundreds in the U.S.): the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (552,000 subscribers); the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (650,000); the United Mine Workers of America...
Reynolds Metals Co. boosted its primary production of aluminum to 100% of rated annual capacity (601,000 tons) last week, and said: "We're selling aluminum as fast as we can make it." Production at Aluminum Co. of America and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. was also rising, bringing the industry to 90% of its 2,300,000 tons primary capacity. Preliminary figures indicate that May production hit an alltime monthly high of 164,000 tons, and makers are confident that 1959 will be a record year, about 20% over...
...aluminum by the housing industry are expected to increase this year by more than 50% over 1958. The 1959 car uses about 52 Ibs. of aluminum for brakes, pistons, automatic transmission parts and trim (v. 47 Ibs. last year). By 1962, predicts D. A. Rhoades, general manager of Kaiser Aluminum, the auto industry's use of aluminum will be up 300%, to 500.000 tons a year for engines, wheels, bumpers and radiators...