Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armed with stacks of statistics, Henry Kaiser and son Edgar appeared before a Senate subcommittee last week to defend their performance in making airplanes at Willow Run. But in the midst of the defense, an aide passed them a note containing some startling news: Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott had just canceled Kaiser's orders for C-119 Flying Boxcars, along with $225 million in orders for 244 assault transports from Chase Aircraft, 49% Kaiser owned. On that note, the hearing abruptly ended...
...Fairchild itself is building for only $260,000 each (TIME, June 15). The Air Force denied that this caused the cancellation, but nobody believed it. The Air Force, fighting to restore some of the cuts in its 1954 budget, obviously wanted to drop an operation criticized as wasteful. Henry Kaiser and Edgar had done their best, before the hearings broke up. to acquit K-F of this charge. In a 22-page prepared statement, and an 88-page memorandum passed out to the press, they detailed Kaiser-Frazer's tribulations...
...Kaiser Motors, said Henry, had started from scratch on the C-119's, had to learn all about the new job and write off its enormous tooling costs against only 159 planes. The cost of producing the first C-119's was high, as is usual in mass production, but with production increasing, mistakes corrected and short cuts discovered, the cost curve would fall rapidly...
...setting for this sybaritic living was no luxury hotel, though it looked like one from the outside. It was the new Kaiser Foundation Hospital, opened last week for the 95,000 area subscribers to Henry J. Kaiser's prepaid medical and hospitalcare plan. To shy, freckled Dr. Sidney Garfield, head of the eleven-hospital Kaiser chain, the ultra-modern Los Angeles unit comes near to fulfilling a 20-year dream: the perfect hospital from the point of view of patients, visitors, nurses and doctors...
...gadgets, the Kaiser hospital cost no more than the current big-city average: $3,000,000 for 210 beds in private and semiprivate rooms. Its charges for those who are not members of the Kaiser plan are not out of line-$15 a day in a double room and $22 in a single, and members seldom pay more than their monthly dues. But to the patients the money means less than the atmosphere. Said Mrs. Sigmund: "It's really nice to be in a hospital that's so pleasant instead of like a jail...