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...follows one woman, Tabitha Baskett, whose life and strange love weaves through the Victorian Era, the Kaiser War, the depression, and still another war. Her life is a story of changing manners and morals. It starts as a life of revolt, against the humid prudery of a rural town, against the respectability of Victorian London; it ends in resistance to the new fangled ideas of younger revolutionists...
...tons. Even before the news from Sawyer went out, two steel companies showed that they meant business. U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans to boost capacity of its Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. by 500,000 tons (to 3,350,000) within the next two years, and Henry Kaiser announced expansion plans for his Fontana mill (see below...
Much of the recent news about Henry J. Kaiser's industrial empire has had a familiar ring: it concerned loans from RFC to the faltering Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Henry Kaiser, who had received $44 million for K-F and another $123 million for the Kaiser Steel Corp., was RFC's biggest single business loan...
Last week Henry had a different kind of news to report. The RFC, he said, would soon get back the $91 million it had lent to Kaiser Steel, which operates the Fontana (Calif.) steel plant. What was more, Kaiser planned to expand Fontana's capacity by 15% (to 1,380,000 tons a year) and install a tinplate plant with a capacity of 200,000 tons a year. With the tinplate facilities, he hopes to get a big slice of business from the West's canning industry, which consumes some 700,000 tons of tinplate a year, most...
...whole program, said Kaiser, will cost $125 million. Part of the money ($40 million) will come from a new public stock issue of 2,400,000 shares in Kaiser Steel. Of the rest, $60 million will come from the sale of first mortgage bonds to banks and insurance companies and the other $25 million from loans from the Bank of America, the Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. and Chase National Bank...