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...Kaiser-Frazer Corp., which has been grubstaked by the RFC to just about all the Government money it can get for its auto business, struck it rich in the private money markets last week. It got a $25 million credit from California's Bank of America, Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank & Trust Co., and Manhattan's Bankers Trust...
Though K-F lost $13,260,193 last year making automobiles, the company now has an estimated $500 million in defense contracts for Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcars," Chase Aircraft (49% Kaiser-owned) C-123 assault transports, Wright aircraft engines and components for Lockheed's P2V antisubmarine patrol bomber...
...gets an NPA steel allotment on the basis of its previous production of 1,400 a day. K-F is using its excess steel to turn out body components for General Motors' Fisher Body Division. Although K-F lost money in the first quarter, Boss Edgar Kaiser thinks that it will be in the black by year...
...ornate, five-story Fifth Avenue building, decorated more like a Renaissance palace than a school. In the past 17 years Hartman has handed out awards to about 50 companies for "exemplifying the best in American design." Sample winners: Ford, Motorola, Ronson lighters, General Electric (for a plastic furniture covering), Kaiser-Frazer, Elgin, Parker, United Air Lines (for its Mainliner interiors), Packard, the Chicago Tribune (for "being inspirational to students of design...
Weinberg volunteered to help Wilson out for only 90 days, but he stayed on an extra 2½ months at Wilson's request. During that time, he helped staff the mobilization program with such top men as Clay Bedford, boss of the Kaiser shipyards during the war; Harvard Professor William Yandell Elliott, a raw materials expert; and George Harrison, president of A.F.L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Last week the body snatcher finally decided his job was done. He stopped in to see his boss and old friend, regretfully said goodbye, and headed back to his senior partnership...