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When Henry Kaiser moved to Hawaii in 1954 and bought a $187,000 Kahala beach home, his announced intention was "to rest." While resting, he built a swimming pool beside his house in six days, suggested that the government build an island off Waikiki and announced a plan to put $110 million into new resorts. Last week H.J. began to back his words with actions. After a quick trip to Los Angeles to line up financing, consult with Architect Welton Becket and a representative of Conrad Hilton, Kaiser plunked down $491,000 for more beachfront, thus became Waikiki...
...increase over last year. But the independent automakers were still having a tough time. Stude-baker-Packard has not yet announced its earnings for the quarter, but did report that only in March, the last month in the quarter, it had managed to operate in the black. Kaiser Motors, however, an almost chronically profitless independent automaker, earned $1,207,113 during 1955's first quarter, v. a loss of $7,509,340 in the same period a year...
Back in turn-of-the century days, when the Germanic Museum was first planned, German-American relations were at a peak. Gifts from Kaiser Wilhelm II and other Germans were warmly received by Harvard officials. Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beer magnate and the museum's chief financial benefactor, could comfortably proclaim, at an elaborate 1912 cornerstone ceremony, the on vocation, "Forever live the good entente between Germany and the United States." Five years later, just as major work on the museum was completed, America entered World...
...When last heard of in 1949, Sir Timothy Calvert Eden was going strong as eighth baronet, and so to speak, chief of the family tong. It was John Eden-the eldest of four brothers of whom Timothy was second, Anthony third and Nicholas fourth - who was killed in the Kaiser's war in France . . . Nicholas, a midshipman, died in the Battle of Jutland...
...Years. Almost overnight, the Swiss patent clerk became the world's most famous scientist. Universities competed for him, and in 1912 he became a professor at the famed Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. In 1915 Einstein expanded his theory into the General Theory of Relativity...