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...Washington hotels and in corridors of Government buildings were faces that looked familiar. Such World War II bigwheels as Donald Nelson, Charles (G.E.) Wilson and Henry Kaiser were back in town to sniff the air and find out what came next. Some offered to get back in harness as $1-a-year men but found that things hadn't gone that...
Workers from party-line unions-the Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers, the United Office and Professional Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the Marine Cooks and Stewards-canvassed busily for "peace" signatures. U.A.W. Communists in the big Ford local circulated petitions on the assembly lines. At the Kaiser-Frazer plant, angry U.A.W. unionists flung one peace collector out bodily. Earnest youths turned up on campuses in New York, Chicago and Austin, Texas. In some states, impatient cops, out of sheer exasperation, arrested canvassers on charges of disorderly conduct...
When both the depression and war had vanished, RFC, in its $6.5 million new Washington office building, kept lending away: to Henry Kaiser ($188 million), the now bankrupt Lustron Corp., the foundering Waltham Watch Co. (which later hired an RFCman as president). It also decided to prop up gasoline stations, country stores, restaurants, plumbers and a host of small businessmen. Though it made some curious loans, it claimed an overall profit of $560 million during its existence...
...Ford Motor Co. 2. Packard Motor Car Co. 3. General Motors. 4. Chrysler. 5. Kaiser-Frazer...
...five years since that decision, Alcoa's shrewd President Roy A. Hunt has done the best he could to build up competition. Hunt made available to the Government some of Alcoa's key patents, thus paving the way for Reynolds Metals Co. and Henry Kaiser to buy and lease a majority of the war-built aluminum plants. But to Roy Hunt's dismay, nothing he could do was enough to satisfy the trustbusters; in 1948 they marched back into court to demand that Alcoa's properties be carved up on the grounds that it still monopolized...