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...Vienna rooming house, four years ago, an obscure German citizen named Wilhelm Kaiser died, unmourned by anyone except his landlady. That kindly soul, Frau Amalie Feix, had nursed Kaiser during his illness, had paid hospital and funeral bills. The only valuables he had left behind were three rings. These, Frau Feix thought, rightly belonged to her. She hoped to sell them to make up for her expenses. Frau Feix, however, ran smack up against the Big Four...
...Kuno Francke, professor of German and the Museum's first curator, as a place for exhibits of specimens of Germanic art "from the first contact of Germanic tribes with the civilization of the Roman empire to the present day." Carl Schurz spoke at the opening in 1903, and Kaiser Wilhelm donated a considerable part of the original collection...
Ever since 1946, when Edgar Kaiser became general manager of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., he has actually been running the company, although breezy, glad-handing
There were even some price cuts. The first postwar dip in the price of zinc (from 17½? to 16? a Ib.) was quickly passed on with lower prices on galvanized steel products. What few premium prices remained were gradually being dropped. Henry Kaiser cut the price of steel from his Fontana, Calif, plant $10 to $39 a ton, thereby wiping out increases made last August...
...spur slumping sales, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. last week took a bold step: it cut auto prices 10% to 15%, by far the biggest reductions made by any automaker since the war. The slash brought the list price of the lowest-priced model, the Kaiser special, to $1,995-a drop of $333. The smallest reduction was $198 on the Frazer. The company said that "starting up" costs had been absorbed and that steel end auto parts were now available at lower prices...