Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...renovate two factories, and Borden Co. was planning a new milk-processing plant. In Canada, Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. was developing the rich iron-ore deposits in the Ungava area of Northern Quebec and Labrador, a project that may cost $200 million. Automaker Henry J. Kaiser had landed a $2,500,000 contract with Israel to build an auto assembly plant in Haifa. In Latin America, considered an "undeveloped" area by Point Four planners, some of the biggest U.S. companies were hard at work. In Venezuela, U.S. Steel Corp. had discovered ore deposits of higher iron content...
...Dodge Coronet 21.39, Kaiser Special 23.95; Studebaker Commander 23.79, Mercury 26.52, Hudson Pacemaker 22.60, Nash Ambassador 26.42, De Soto Custom 18.78, Oldsmobile "88" 20.19; Packard "8" 18.92, Chrysler Windsor 19.85, Oldsmobile "98" 19.45, Studebaker Land Cruiser 24.89; Lincoln 18.15, Frazer Manhattan 23.91, Chrysler New Yorker 17.11, Packard Super 16.00, Hudson Commodore 21.39; Kaiser Virginian 23.97, Cadillac "61" 22.97; Cadillac "62" 22.53, Lincoln Cosmopolitan 17.56; Cadillac "60" Special 22.08; Cadillac...
...handsome, 36-page booklet, Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser last week gave the public its first good look at his complex industrial empire and the way he controls it. That empire, the booklet explained, had now grown to 44 plants, producing 141 different products and chalking up annual sales of $500 million. It did not tell how much profit the empire makes...
...through his family's investment and operating company, Henry J. Kaiser Co., Kaiser holds 100% control of Kaiser Steel Corp., which owns the big $123 million Fontana steel plant, his biggest moneymaker. The next best moneymaker, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., is controlled (49.7%) by the Henry J. Kaiser Co. and another investment company, Kaiser Industries, Inc. Between them they also control four other profitable companies: Permanente Cement Co., with a 30.4% stock interest; Kaiser Metal Products Inc. (55%), Kaiser Community Homes (50%), and Consolidated Builders Inc. (22.5%). On the other hand, the two companies own only 9.5% interest...
...short, it looked as if Kaiser had put most of his own eggs in the right baskets and kept a tight hold on the handles...