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...annual trade fair, set up a model settlement for workers. He had a natural flair for politics. "When I sat in the city hall in Cologne," Adenauer once said, "I used to think to myself: the Roman Empire went down, Bismarck's Prussian dream collapsed and now Kaiser Wilhelm's Reich has been destroyed. But this old city of Cologne lives on. It has outlasted them all, and it is worth all one's energies to protect and cherish...
...perennial search for something to head off or cure the common cold, two doctors at the Permanente Foundation Hospital in Oakland, Calif, (established in 1942 by Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser) gave twice-daily doses of penicillin to almost 1,500 volunteers. An equal number, serving as controls, were given chalk pills...
...Kaiser-Frazer Corp. stockholders had one consolation: nothing had been kept from them. When K-F President Edgar F. Kaiser reported a $5.8 million loss for the first quarter, he had predicted further trouble. Last week, K-F reported a second-quarter loss of $2,300,000 (v. $3,900,000 net in the same 1948 period...
...deal gave Kaiser a permanent place in the U.S. aluminum industry with a totally integrated operation from mine to mill. It also assured Permanente of its ranking as the nation's third largest aluminum producer, with a primary capacity of 130,000 tons v. Reynolds Metals Co.'s 190,000 tons and the Aluminum Co. of America's 275,000 tons...
...even Alcoa, which built all three mills at Government order, could have minded Kaiser's getting them. With Permanente and Reynolds now controlling about 50% of U.S. aluminum capacity, there was considerably less force behind the Government's long-standing monopoly charges against Alcoa...