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...Justice William O. Douglas, writing the 6-3 majority opinion, applied a principle used in recent anti-merger decisions: "If concentration is already great, the importance of preventing even slight increases in concentration is correspondingly great." Justice Department lawyers believe that the decision will help win similar cases against Kaiser Aluminum, which hopes to acquire U.S. Rubber's aluminum fabricating plant, and Kennecott Copper, which intends to merge with the cable-making Okonite...
European firms developed the two major postwar steelmaking innovations -the oxygen process and continuous casting-and companies such as McLouth, Kaiser and Jones & Laughlin built oxygen furnaces before U.S. Steel did. Progressive McLouth was also first with continuous casting. In addition, U.S. Steel declined to meet lower prices set by aggressive domestic and foreign competitors, sometimes abandoned markets rather than compete...
...Bank balance down. Time to do another Big Novel. But what about? The marines in World War II? Did that one already. Maybe the Kaiser's war? Ancient history. The Israeli thing, and beautiful deep-chested broads with big bandoleers standing ankle-deep in the dirt of the kibbutzim? Ah, there's a bestselling idea. Too bad, did that one too. What's left? Got it! Berlin and the airlift. It has flyers and wild blue yonders, and conflict with the Russkies, and a small band of far-seeing Army officers, and fräuleins...
...State of Oregon's timber carnival, a talented sculptor named Ken Kaiser casually shapes human faces from massive logs, using a roaring, 30-in. gasoline-powered chain saw. Logrollers stand on thick timbers in the Flushing River, trying to jar each other into the scented currents. Hulking lumberjacks heave double-bit axes at targets, handbuckers go through 2-ft. logs in about 40 sec., and competing axmen hack chips the size of dinner plates out of the remnants of trees...
...Cowles Kaiser...