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Armed with stacks of statistics, Henry Kaiser and son Edgar appeared before a Senate subcommittee last week to defend their performance in making airplanes at Willow Run. But in the midst of the defense, an aide passed them a note containing some startling news: Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott had just canceled Kaiser's orders for C-119 Flying Boxcars, along with $225 million in orders for 244 assault transports from Chase Aircraft, 49% Kaiser owned. On that note, the hearing abruptly ended...
...setting for this sybaritic living was no luxury hotel, though it looked like one from the outside. It was the new Kaiser Foundation Hospital, opened last week for the 95,000 area subscribers to Henry J. Kaiser's prepaid medical and hospitalcare plan. To shy, freckled Dr. Sidney Garfield, head of the eleven-hospital Kaiser chain, the ultra-modern Los Angeles unit comes near to fulfilling a 20-year dream: the perfect hospital from the point of view of patients, visitors, nurses and doctors...
...gadgets, the Kaiser hospital cost no more than the current big-city average: $3,000,000 for 210 beds in private and semiprivate rooms. Its charges for those who are not members of the Kaiser plan are not out of line-$15 a day in a double room and $22 in a single, and members seldom pay more than their monthly dues. But to the patients the money means less than the atmosphere. Said Mrs. Sigmund: "It's really nice to be in a hospital that's so pleasant instead of like a jail...
...largest automobile merger since Chrysler took over Dodge in 1928, Kaiser bought...
...contract $715,631 of vacation pay for workers who had earned it from auto motive work. Other items disallowed: 1) $4.2 million of automotive costs, which would have eventually totaled $56 million if not eliminated; and 2) a charge to the Government for 65% of the cost of Kaiser's ads replying to Senator Bridges...