Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson and Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser donned asbestos gloves and protective goggles. Then, before 600 guests who had been flown to New Orleans from all over...
...event, they stepped up to a giant, red-hot ladle, tugged at the 20-foot handle and poured a mold full of aluminum-the first produced in what will be the biggest U.S. aluminum plant. When Kaiser's plant is completed in mid-1953, it will turn out 200,000 tons of aluminum annually, more than the entire U.S. industry produced...
...plant had a special significance for New Orleans, which does not have much heavy industry. Kaiser is the first to run an aluminum plant on Louisiana's natural gas. Now that he has shown the way, New Orleans hopes that other industries will follow. For his new plant, Kaiser got a well-deserved pat on the back from Wilson. He had raised the $115 million for aluminum expansion from private sources, got the plant going in only ten months, and doubled its planned capacity in the process...
Millions & Millions. Once in debt to the Government up to his eyeballs, Henry Kaiser has now paid off more than $244 million. Of all his enterprises, ranging from autos, cement, magnesium and steel to aluminum and houses, only his auto company, Kaiser-Frazer, is still in debt to the U.S. It owes $51 million. Kaiser has little trouble getting money from private sources. He has recently arranged for: i) a $17,-500,000 preferred-stock issue to finance the rest of his new aluminum plant, and 2) $65 million in new private financing to add a third blast furnace...
...latest list of collectors' items from the rare book department of Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan included a copy of the declaration which launched the Franco-Prussian War, signed by Kaiser Wilhelm, and priced at $2,750. It was a gift from Rudolph Hess to his good friend Adolf Hitler and inscribed in gold: "To the Führer, Christmas, 1938, in which year he twice overran borders in order to bring back German territory into the Reich." Among half a dozen other books from the Führer's personal library: autographed first editions...