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...Many "Aryan" scientists fled too; but old Max Planck stayed behind. In 1934 (he was 76), he went in person to Hitler, to demand an end of Jewish persecution. Hitler turned his back while the old man talked. The following year, Planck was removed from the presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (a scientific society). When he celebrated his 80th birthday in 1938, the Government sent no representative...
Four of a Kind. The Kaiser-Frazer Corp. rolled out its 100,000th car. It announced that a custom-built Kaiser luxury sedan ($2,301 F.O.B. Willow Run) would be added to its three models...
...Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp., with the usual blare of trumpets that accompanies any move of the Kaiser enterprises, lowered the price of sheet aluminum to 21$ a lb., "approximately 15% below anything ever produced for sheet metal fabricators." The same day, the Reynolds Metals Co., whose president, Richard S. Reynolds, got into aluminum by making foil wrappers for his uncle's tobacco products, announced price reductions averaging 20% on aluminum building materials, such as shingles, clapboard siding, roofing and ceiling panels. Only the Aluminum Co. of America, which had the aluminum business to itself before...
Unforgivable Debt. The RFC bluntly rejected Henry Kaiser's plea that it write off $85 million of the $123 million it had loaned him during the war to build his Fontana (Calif.) steel plant. Kaiser had contended that the writeoff would be in line with the $162 million loss the Government took on the war surplus sale of its $200 million Geneva (Utah) plant. Said RFC: the situations were not at all similar. U.S. Steel bought Geneva - Fontana's competitor-through open bidding long after the plant was built. But Kaiser himself built, operated and reaped the wartime...
...hold the greatest steel investigation that has ever been held in America. The steel situation has become so bad that it now jeopardizes the economy of our country . . . thousands of small manufacturers [are] dying for steel; for lack of steel, failures of small businesses are becoming a daily occurrence." Kaiser also managed to get in a plug for his old plea that RFC should wipe out the $85 million balance due on Fontana (TIME, June...