Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oberleutnant Franz Marc, artillery observer in the Kaiser's Fifth Army, stood tall, handsome and sad one day in early March 1916 in a hush of the great battle for Verdun. "One chews constantly," he had written his wife, "on that ever more baffling riddle: how this war is possible." He had spoken of living on three levels: soldierly, meditative and creative. Soldiering was to him "a complete dream act." Meditating was "perhaps closer to true experience." Creating was "an unconscious growing and going towards a goal, the sprouting of art ... a seed that one must not grasp rudely...
...HENRY KAISER will borrow $95 million from private banks to retire all outstanding debts of Willys and Kaiser Motors Corp. (including $13.3 million owed the Government). To do so, Kaiser will bring his automaking, construction, steel, cement, aluminum and home-building companies under one giant company to be known as Kaiser Industries Corp...
ALUMINUM EXPANSION will put Henry J. Kaiser in second place in the industry, bumping Reynolds back to third spot. Kaiser will spend $280 million on two new plants, one at Ravenswood, W. Va., and another at Gramercy, La., boost capacity 50% to 654,000 tons annually, right behind No. 1 producer Alcoa...
...even more useful privilege: that of British nationality. By implication, the court's decision, based on a law passed in 1705, would grant the same privilege, on application, to the present Kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Greece, the Queen of The Netherlands, the descendants of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II and to some 400 other non-Roman-Catholic heirs, including the wives of an interior decorator in Amarillo, Texas and a lawyer in Springfield...
...took only a few months at the Western front as an enlisted man in the Kaiser's infantry to turn Grosz's boyhood love of military panoply into a deep hatred of war. He was twice invalided, the second time to a military hospital for the shell-shocked and insane. After discharge Grosz found the subject that made his reputation: the postwar nightmare of inflation-ridden Berlin. Grosz glared at the world with jaundiced, penetrating eye, set down the characters he saw in portraits etched in gall: frozen-faced Prussian officers, lecherous, high-collared industrialists, black-marketeers, mutilated...