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...Kaiser-Frazer, which has had its troubles selling autos, faced trouble of a different sort. New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges charged last week that K-F's biggest defense contract, which has kept the company going for the past few months, is costing taxpayers at least $150 million too much. K-F, said Bridges is building 159 Fairchild C-119 cargo planes for the Air Force at a cost of $1,200,000 apiece, whereas the same planes made by Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp cost only $260,000. The Senator, who will head either the Armed Services...
When the Bridges charges hit the papers last week, K-F's President Edgar Kaiser placed ads in ten cities saying that Bridges had "found it impossible to keep any of several appointments" made to discuss K-F's side of the case. Kaiser denied the "inference . . . that the Willow Run operation is inefficient," and demanded a chance to prove it in a congressional investigation...
...Strip your Louis Quatorze of his king-gear," rumbled Thomas Carlyle one day, "and there is left nothing but a poor, forked radish with a head fantastically carved." The last German who ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result, have faced the necessity of sinking their roots in the radish patch of common humanity. In The Rebel Prince, his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert Hohenzollern ("Lulu" to the family), says it was a hard fight but he made...
Both Germans and hyphenated Americans developed the Museum. It was the dream of Kuno Franke, Professor of German History. Its first pieces were gifts of Kaiser Wilhelm, while Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis malt-and-hops king, and his son-in-law, Hugo Reisinger endowed the building itself...
Scheduled in 1916, the opening of the Museum was delayed six years because of the first World War. Hatred of the Kaiser was so intense in Cambridge that attendants hustled his full-length portrait into hiding in the bell tower. Nevertheless, the very presence of something German in Cambridge stirred suspicion. The story floated around that the unusually heavy foundations of the building were really gun emplacements, from which Hindenburg's Big Berthas were to lob shells into the heart of Boston. Public pressure closed the Museum's doors during the second War as well...