Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning, when she knocked at her mother's bedroom door and was asked "Who's there?", she replied: "The Queen of The Netherlands." Wilhelmina kept Holland out of World War I only to become embroiled in controversy after it was all over. Unannounced, Germany's defeated Kaiser Wilhelm entered the neutral Netherlands and requested-and got-sanctuary. It was to the Kaiser that Wilhelmina addressed what is probably her best-known remark...
During an earlier meeting, after the Kaiser boasted of his seven-foot German guardsmen, she replied: "When we open our dikes, the waters are ten feet deep." But in World War II it was the Dutch who were engulfed in a German tide...
...director of the Kaiser Foundation Rehabilitation Center in Vallejo, Dr. Mead is a specialist in physical medicine and deals mainly with patients whose ability to exercise has been catastrophically cut-elderly stroke victims and teen-agers with broken necks from diving accidents, or children paralyzed by polio. The polio patients used to be immobilized in plaster casts for months, until all hope of restoring strength to atrophied muscles had vanished. No more. Even the weakest muscle must be exercised, Dr. Mead insists...
...drop from last year's $33.9 million to this year's $13.9 million, chopped its quarterly dividend from 60? to 37½?. Jones & Laughlin's earnings melted from $10.1 million to $1.9 million while deficits were reported by Pittsburgh Steel ($814,000) 'and Kaiser Steel ($2.5 million). By contrast, steel's tough competitor, Aluminum Co. of America, increased its earnings 26% from $9.4 million to $11.8 million...
...Pittsburgh last week the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., largest U.S..producer of stainless steel, lopped 2% off its prices on key grades "to make ourselves competitive." Coming hard on the heels of a recent 12% price slash by California's Kaiser Steel Corp.. which virtually eliminated the historic differential between Eastern and Western steel, and last month's sharp reductions (as much as 19%) in posted prices by the Aluminum Co. of America, the Allegheny Ludlum move was the latest evidence of a general softening in the prices of industrial materials. According to the Labor Department...