Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list of the "ten best-dressed males of 1950," selected by women fashion experts, included Henry Ford II ("the young look"), Cinemactor Robert Montgomery ("the handsome look") and Henry J. Kaiser ("the executive look"). Included in the ladies' best-dressed list for the first time: Gloria Swanson, Faye Emerson and Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer...
...build B-47 jet bombers in an idle Government plane plant in Tulsa, Okla. It would be the first time since World War II that any company other than Boeing has produced Boeing planes -but Douglas would not be able to get into production for 18 months at least. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. was dickering to build Fairchild C-119 transports at Willow Run; even General Motors was said to have a deal cooking to build Republic F-84 jet fighters...
...When Kaiser-Frazer last week got a new $25 million RFC loan to help keep it solvent until it can sell its big backlog of cars, the terms were stiff. (K-F already owes RFC $43 million.) RFC ordered K-F to: 1) cut production from 800 to 600 cars a day; 2) raise no prices without RFC consent; 3) pay off the loan with 90% of the wholesale selling price of each car as it is taken out of storage...
...there were prospects of easing the shortage of aluminum. The Aluminum Corp. of America, Reynolds Metals and Henry Kaiser announced that they would expand their capacity by 320,000 tons, raising the aluminum industry's overall capacity by more than 50%. However, the new plants would not be in operation for another two years or more...
Only a month after paying off the last of a $123 million RFC loan on his Fontana steel mill, Industrialist Henry Kaiser was back hat in hand last week knocking on RFC's door. This time he wanted $38 million for his auto company, Kaiser-Frazer, which already owes RFC $43 million. K-F President Edgar Kaiser explained that the company needs the money to tide it over until it can sell its backlog of 18,000 cars. He said that the Government's credit restrictions had slowed up its sales so much that...