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...Willow Run last week, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. laid off 5,000 workers and stopped production for six days for "inventory adjustment." While the shutdown gave K-F dealers, whose sales had been lagging, a chance to cut down the supply of cars' on hand, it also gave Wall Streeters a scare. K-F stock, which had tumbled from 15 5/8 to 3 3/8 in 21 months, dropped another s of a point to a 1949 closing...
...week's end RFC let out some news which might explain the rise. K-F had been dickering for a $30 million . loan since May, and if "all requirements are met" the RFC might be disposed to grant it. Detroit buzzed with rumors that Kaiser would use such a loan to retool for his long-promised, light low-priced car to compete with Chevrolet Ford and Plymouth...
Heraldry is a subject that has fascinated Myles Standish Weston of TIME'S Promotion Department since he was eleven years old. At that time, to settle an argument about the German Kaiser's responsibility for starting World War I, he wrote to Kaiser Wilhelm at his postwar refuge in Holland. In reply Weston received a packet of propaganda which said that the Kaiser not only had not started the war, he hadn't even lost it. This line of reasoning failed to impress Weston, but the Prussian royal arms on the Kaiser's letterhead did. That...
...politician wanted a verse of Deutschland über Alles included in the ceremonies. And there was the riverboat contretemps. Bonn, desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel Ship...
Some of the examples of control were old stuff. It would surprise few that U.S. aluminum-producing facilities were completely dominated by Alcoa, Reynolds Metals and-Henry Kaiser's Permanente Metals; that the Big Four tobacco companies-American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers, R. J. Reynolds, P. Lorillard-owned 87.8% of all the industry's manufacturing facilities; that Armour and Swift controlled 54.7% of U.S. meat-packing capital assets...