Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter Kaiser uses about the same approach in his piece on Cezanne, Aix-en-Provence. The meter he choses (unconsciously or not) contributes powerfully to his thoughts on imponderable nature, giving balance and clearness to the total meaning. Tending towards obscurity, Robert Layzer presents a tribute to She Voyages which becomes entangled in odd grammar and unconnected images. Regrettably, he is unable to control some highly imaginative metaphors. What Winifred Hare means to imply in her caption, Song for Two People on Three Instruments, I will not venture to guess. Regardless of what she refers to, her piece creates...
...Kaiser-Frazer, which has had its troubles selling autos, faced trouble of a different sort. New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges charged last week that K-F's biggest defense contract, which has kept the company going for the past few months, is costing taxpayers at least $150 million too much. K-F, said Bridges is building 159 Fairchild C-119 cargo planes for the Air Force at a cost of $1,200,000 apiece, whereas the same planes made by Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp cost only $260,000. The Senator, who will head either the Armed Services...
When the Bridges charges hit the papers last week, K-F's President Edgar Kaiser placed ads in ten cities saying that Bridges had "found it impossible to keep any of several appointments" made to discuss K-F's side of the case. Kaiser denied the "inference . . . that the Willow Run operation is inefficient," and demanded a chance to prove it in a congressional investigation...
...clear that the quintuple fumbles on the C-119 had kept K-F afloat. Last week Kaiser reported that K-F was in the black for the first time in four years, with a third-quarter net of $344,064. All the profit was due to defense work, chiefly the C-119 contract; K-F's auto operations lost $175,094 in the quarter. In the first nine months of 1952, said Kaiser, the company lost $8,700,000 on $98 million in auto sales, whereas on $17 million more in defense work it netted...
...Strip your Louis Quatorze of his king-gear," rumbled Thomas Carlyle one day, "and there is left nothing but a poor, forked radish with a head fantastically carved." The last German who ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result, have faced the necessity of sinking their roots in the radish patch of common humanity. In The Rebel Prince, his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert Hohenzollern ("Lulu" to the family), says it was a hard fight but he made...