Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...models to the drawing board. After Korea, it worked hard to broaden its production base. In some cases, the Air Force deliberately paid more for planes just to get a new assembly line tooled up: e.g., the first two troop-carrying C-ngs to roll out of the new Kaiser-Frazer plant cost $1,000,000 apiece, as compared with the $314,000 price at the parent Fairchild plant. Said a production engineer last week, expansively waving aside Vandenberg's estimate of two years: "If they say 'go' today, a rate of 100,000 planes a year...
...fought the British, lived to become a British field marshal and one of the stout pillars of the British Commonwealth;* Malan, who never heard a shot fired, is a bitter Anglophobe. Smuts, a great internationalist, twice declared war on Germany in the name of democracy; Malan admired both the Kaiser and the Nazis, publicly announced that he hoped Hitler would win. Both men became Prime Ministers of South Africa...
...Miles per gallon for the other finishers: Henry J Corsair Six, 26.368; Studebaker Commander, 25.597; Ford Mainline Six, 25.463; Mercury Monterey, 25.409; Studebaker Land Cruiser, 25.383; Kaiser Deluxe, 24.648; Plymouth Cranbrook, 23.522; Plymouth Concord, 23.t>80; Lincoln Capri, 22.356; Ford Mainline Eight, 22.149; De Soto Firedome Six-Passenger, 21.278; Hudson Hornet Six, 20.827; Chevrolet Styleline, 20.571; Hudson Wasp, 20.464; Hudson Commodore Eight, 20.397; Chrysler Windsor, 19.360; Packard 200, 19.228; Chrysler Imperial, 19.080; Chrysler Saratoga Six-Passenger, 19.024; Chrysler Saratoga Eight-Passenger, 17.652; Packard 400, 16.951; Packard 300, 16.421; Chrysler Crown Imperial...
...Kaiser-Frazer cut prices on its Henry J models this week, thanks chiefly to the fact that, with the metal supply easing, K-F no longer must rely on high-cost conversion steel. The cuts, ranging from $100 to $168, put the lowest priced Henry Js $176 to $266 below the lowest Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth...
Metals. Phelps Dodge, second biggest domestic copper producer, saw its net fall from $12.7 million to $9.2 million; Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical went from...