Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ping of a single acorn. Since the start of the Korean war, there had been a slow pitter-patter of inflation. Prices had risen sharply, followed by wage boosts which threatened still further price hikes. And last week more acorns hit: auto prices started going up again (Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer, Willys, Packard and Nash boosted prices from $10 to $127), and two small steel producers hiked their prices $5-$10 a ton on steel products, a possible forerunner of a general boost in that prime raw material...
...tons. Even before the news from Sawyer went out, two steel companies showed that they meant business. U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans to boost capacity of its Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. by 500,000 tons (to 3,350,000) within the next two years, and Henry Kaiser announced expansion plans for his Fontana mill (see below...
Much of the recent news about Henry J. Kaiser's industrial empire has had a familiar ring: it concerned loans from RFC to the faltering Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Henry Kaiser, who had received $44 million for K-F and another $123 million for the Kaiser Steel Corp., was RFC's biggest single business loan...
...which was close to the ragged edge last year when a $44 million RFC loan saved it, had already moved into the black in July with its sleek, rakish Kaiser. Last week, K-F, which is making 400 Henry Js a day, turned out a new daily peak of 1,200 cars. Furthermore, Edgar Kaiser predicted 1,600 a day as soon as a second shift gets rolling. Edgar also had thinned out K-F's inefficient dealers by trimming the number of agencies from...
Despite the pickup, K-F thought it had better have an anchor to windward. Last week Chairman Henry J. Kaiser asked the stockholders to authorize the company to go into the shipbuilding business. Kaiser, who made his reputation as a World War II shipbuilder operating seven Government-owned shipyards, now operates none. But with talk of a big new Government program (see Shipping), World War II's top shipbuilder thought that he could put his know-how to use developing a profitable sideline...