Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tale about a mole, a water rat and a scapegrace toad, called The Wind in the Willows. The London Times wrote stiffly that "as a contribution to natural history, the work is negligible." But Grahame's fable caught on with such varied readers as Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm, came to be one of those rare books recognized by both children and adults as a children's classic. It still sells about 80,000 copies a year...
Honorable mention in the three divisions were awarded to Walter J. Kaiser 3G, for "The Prologue to Tiers Livre," to Gabriel Kolko 4G, for "A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of History," and to Edmond S. Miksch 1G, for his essay, "A Finite, Boundless, Flat Universe...
Small Station Wagon. Kaiser Industries' Willys Motors, Inc. rolled out a Jeep station wagon that is the industry's lowest-priced ($1,995 factory list price, v. Rambler's $2,060). Dubbed "Maverick Special" after the company's TV show, it is powered by a 75-h.p. Jeep engine that gets 27 m.p.g...
...Kaiser plan, masterminded by ten experts who hopscotched the country for six weeks, foresees harnessing the power of the crocodile-infested Volta River to work aluminum plants. First step is to build a 230-ft.-high dam near Kosombo (see map), 60 miles northeast of Accra, then add two satellite dams. They would generate 974,000 kw. (100 times as much as produced now in Ghana), back up a man-made lake that would equal the world's biggest (3,500 sq. mi.), which itself would create a new fishing industry to improve the protein-shy Ghanaian diet. Cost...
Three years ago, when Ghana was still the British colonial Gold Coast, a British team submitted a similar plan-but it was too costly. By using what the British called "exceptional" U.S. engineering methods, Kaiser cut projected costs from $900 million in the original British plan to $600 million, boosted power capacity by 40% and aluminum capacity by 10%, reduced building Lime from eight years to five. Equally important, Kaiser's Volta plan would slash power costs-now 23 mills per kw-h in Ghana-to 2 or 2½ mills for aluminum processors, 6 or 7 mills...