Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advertising manager. The 34-year-old Journal, under Founder Lucius W. Nieman, had done well as an "outspoken, independent organ of the people against all that is wrong . . ." But shortly after Grant arrived, Nieman's fearless idealism nearly scuttled the paper. Fed up with the pro-Kaiser sympathies of many of Milwaukee's German-born, which persisted even after the U.S. entered World War I, the Journal began to translate and publish verbatim reports of anti-U.S. speeches delivered at pro-German meetings. Circulation plummeted but the Journal kept grimly on. It won a Pulitzer Prize...
...dealer showrooms across the land, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. this week finally rolled out its small "low-priced car," the four-cylinder, 100-in. wheelbase "Henry J." At $1,300 f.o.b. Willow Run (a six-cylinder model costs slightly more), it was a good bit more than the $1,175 President Edgar Kaiser had promised last February (TIME, Feb. 20). He blamed the difference on higher materials costs and the 12-17? wage boost granted recently to K-F's workers...
...took advance elements of the ist to Korea for the first Marine battles there. In World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland. He missed the 1st Marine Division's epochal blooding on Guadalcanal...
Over a 3.4-mile course on the New Hampshire Turnpike last week, two small cars sped back & forth, competing in a miles-per-gallon mileage test. The cars were Nash's new "Rambler," and Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s "Henry J.," making its first public appearance. The Henry J. made 34 miles to the gallon, v. the Rambler...
...auto industry enjoyed the greatest boom in its history, Packard managed to lose $736,682. While total auto production went up 30%, Packard's dropped 20%. The company's sales had slipped from 13th to 14th place among U.S. cars, just ahead of the DeSoto and Kaiser...