Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Motor Co. 2. Packard Motor Car Co. 3. General Motors. 4. Chrysler. 5. Kaiser-Frazer...
...five years since that decision, Alcoa's shrewd President Roy A. Hunt has done the best he could to build up competition. Hunt made available to the Government some of Alcoa's key patents, thus paving the way for Reynolds Metals Co. and Henry Kaiser to buy and lease a majority of the war-built aluminum plants. But to Roy Hunt's dismay, nothing he could do was enough to satisfy the trustbusters; in 1948 they marched back into court to demand that Alcoa's properties be carved up on the grounds that it still monopolized...
Looking for an ear-catching name for his new, lower-priced car, Automaker Henry J. (for John) Kaiser set up a $200,000 contest. The result was prodigious: some 450,000 people submitted names. Last week Kaiser-Frazer picked the winner. It wasn't easy, since about 100 contestants had submitted the same name. K-F awarded first prize of $10,000 to Mrs. Charles Atkinson of Denver because she had written the best 25-word reason for her choice. The winning name: Henry...
...Excuses are found to make loans, and in large amounts, that under no circumstances can be justified. [RFC] is being prostituted when making such loans as the Kaiser-Frazer [$44 million], Lustron [$37.5 million], Texmass [$10 million] and Waltham Watch Co. [$6 million...
Died. Prince Hubertus of Prussia, 40, grandson of Germany's late Kaiser Wilhelm, wartime captain in Hitler's Luftwafte, recently a sheep farmer in South Africa; after an appendectomy; in Windhoek, South-West Africa...