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...Kaiser-Frazer Corp. laid off 750 employees a fortnight ago after what it termed a "straight-from-the-shoulder" explanation: "Since engine deliveries are not keeping pace with schedules, we are in the process of reducing personnel to conform to the delivery of engines." Last week, in what appeared to be an attempt to remedy the shortage, K-F leased part of the Detroit plant of Continental Motors Corp., which had been supplying its engines. Henceforth, said K-F, it would make most of its own engines, pay Continental...
...room jammed with chemical equipment, showed little interest in anything else. They guessed that his knowledge of chemistry was self-taught-M.I.T. had no record of him. But he should have been familiar with perchloric acid's dangerous characteristics-he had worked as a chemist at Henry Kaiser's Fontana steel plant and for the Douglas Aircraft...
...bamboo reeds, lucite and copper wire into her fabrics. Every summer Mrs. Liebes disconnects her phone for two months, returns to the trade in the fall with hundreds of sample designs for machine production by Goodall Fabrics. Among her present projects: designing stage curtains for prefab theaters that Henry Kaiser plans to ship abroad, working up fabrics to redecorate Matson luxury liners, for Consolidated Vultee's new 2O4-passenger airplanes, and for 1948 Ford and General Motors cars...
...Heroes. As in every melee, few heroes stood out. G.E.'s Charles E. Wilson cried-and tried-to hold prices, but was swept upwards with the rest. Young Henry Ford II's determined effort to fix union responsibility fell short. Henry J. Kaiser might have turned out to be the hero of the year if he had turned out cars the way he had turned out his ships. But his car-making stuttered along like an 1896 horseless carriage. For great performance, U.S. business had no Man of the Year...
Without Roach, the future of independent steelmen in the West looked dim. The only remaining major Western independent was Henry Kaiser, who cried that Consolidated's sale "could very easily have the effect of eliminating other small producers and myself." But many another industrialist hoped that the increase in Big Steel's fabricating facilities could permit Geneva to produce at capacity (1,300,000 tons a year), ultimately help bring down the price of Western steel...