Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Champagne Charlie [March 26] gave me quite a lift and guffaw. However, your adjective "military" as applied to Charlie's mustache missed the bull's-eye a bit; perhaps your writer is a youngster who doesn't happen to have seen Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache...
...wouldbes of Rome's fleabag Hotel Imperatore, the Countess Sanziani exudes the imposing aura of a famed once-was. For La Sanziani. as Carmela soon learns, was once a legendary courtesan, mistress of a d'Annunzio-like poet, playmate of a Dutch multimillionaire, brief bedfellow of the Kaiser and of many another great or near great. Carmela is too young to sense it, but the poignancy of the countess is that in her rage to relive these past love affairs, she is dueling with her last and most pressing suitor-death...
...Jamaican rancher wondered why he could not grow grass on his estate near Saint Ann's Bay and sent a soil sample to a U.S. laboratory for analysis. The test proved that the soil was rich in bauxite, the source mineral for aluminum. Two U.S. aluminum companies (Kaiser and Reynolds) and one Canadian (Aluminium Ltd., known locally as Aljam) rushed in, staked out one of the world's biggest bauxite reserves, and are now shipping more than 2,000,000 tons a year to the U.S. and Canada...
...competing with public power. AGE helped modernize the backward areas of the Ohio Valley in much the same way that TVA has enriched the Tennessee Valley, and it lured many heavy industries that might otherwise have settled in the Northwest, where government power is cheap, e.g., Henry Kaiser's new $120 million aluminum reduction plant at Ravenswood...
...Memphis, Cloar painted My father was big as a tree, recording his boyhood image of his looming (200 Ibs., 6 ft. 1 in.) father, Charlie Cloar. Arrival of the Germans in Crittenden County, if they won the war they would be over here shows spiked-helmeted soldiers of the Kaiser's army wandering in greatcoats through a rolling Arkansas landscape. Garden of Love, all the little girls had brown eyes is Cloar's homage to all the small girls that he silently admired in their summer dresses...