Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Motors' modern, air-conditioned brick plant in Livonia, Mich, one day last week, the second shift had just filed in to start a normal day's work turning out Hydra-Matic transmissions for G.M., Lincoln, Kaiser, Hudson and Nash. Moments later, sparks from a welder's torch ignited an oil-soaked conveyor belt; suddenly flames leapfrogged from one drip pan to another. After that said Foreman Floyd Davis, everything "went up like a torch...
...KAISER Motors Corp., whose big Willow Run plant has been shut down ever since the Air Force canceled its contracts for C-119 Flying Boxcars (TIME, July 6), will keep the plant closed for good unless the C.I.O. Auto Workers agree to a new contract permitting a relaxation of seniority rules so that workers can be used more efficiently. President Edgar Kaiser is moving final assembly operations permanently to his Willys Motors plant at Toledo, but he hopes to use Willow Run to make parts if the union is willing to cooperate...
REYNOLDS Metals and Kaiser Aluminum are likely to bow out of the Air Force's ill-fated heavy press program (TIME, June 29), and Harvey Machine Co. may do so too. Reason: the Air Force, which was to supply funds to construct buildings to house the machines, has shifted the expense to the operators. If all three companies abandon the program, the Air Force will be left with only ten presses of the 20 it had once planned, and only six companies to run them...
...Kaiser Motors, which has already been paid $150 million for the 55 Boxcars it has delivered, will be permitted to finish eleven more C-119's with parts ready for assembly. On top of what it had paid for the planes, the Air Force had poured $30 million into tooling up for C-123's at Willow Run and committed $40 million more to Chase Aircraft for design and engineering (Kaiser still has subcontracts for plane parts). Whether Kaiser could keep Willow Run going was anybody's guess. There was talk that the plant might start producing...
Fairchild, on the other hand, had the advantage of a Government-furnished plant, said Kaiser, with a large part of its tooling costs written off against a great many more planes, specifically 200 C-82's (forerunners of the C-119's) and some 400 Boxcars. It was also unfair to compare costs between the two planemakers. said Kaiser, because the C-119 made by Fairchild is not as difficult to build as the modified C-119 being made at Willow...