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...joint ventures. Last year, for example, Westinghouse Electric acquired Florida's Coral Ridge Properties and is now busy building a city for 60,000 residents near Fort Lauderdale. Pennsylvania Railroad's Macco Realty Co. is developing an 87,500-acre Rancho California community near Los Angeles with Kaiser Industries and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. American Standard Inc., the nation's biggest plumbing manufacturer, this year joined a 4,500-house venture in California's Ventura County...
...Kaiser Steel...
...Kaiser Aluminum...
...Grand-Hotel de 1'Europe in Bad Gastein, Austria. Since the 15th century when Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III discovered the therapeutic effects of Bad Gastein's thermal waters, the tiny Alpine village has been called "the Spa of Kings." Kaiser Wilhelm spent 20 seasons there, and it remains a favored haven for pashas and potentates. The sprawling, four-story hotel, opened in 1909, boasts bathrooms with 7-ft.-sq. tubs, marble floors and walls, and taps for mineral as well as plain water. ¶-Park-Hotel Adler in Hinterzarten, Germany. An ancient Black Forest inn that dates...
Simplicissimus, often shortened familiarly to Simpl, is the honored name of Germany's world-famous satirical magazine. Before World War I, it dabbed acid fun at Kaiser Wilhelm II, and for its lese majesty was frequently banned. It took on new teeth in the 1920s just in time to start potshotting at the rise of Nazism. One Simpl view of Hitler showed the top of his head lifted up to reveal a void within. "Isn't it strange," remarked the magazine, "that you can make such a lot of trouble with so little stuff?" It was not strange...