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...better dynastic days the Hohenzollerns had had an astonishing appetite for real estate. "Come to think of it, I would like to have Windsor Castle for a summer resort," Kaiser Wilhelm II once casually remarked. His second son Eitel Friedrich chimed in: "And you will let me have the Isle of Man, won't you?" After the Kaiser had fled to Holland, where he sprinkled gold dust on the signature of his abdication in 1918, he was reduced to eating the bitter bread of exile in the curtailed magnificence of House Doorn. But his heart was still in Potsdam...
...Western steel. In letting out the news, Fairless gave them a surprising new item to chew over. Big Steel, he said, is also ready to dicker with DPC to buy or lease the $110,000,000 steel plant at Fontana, Calif., built and operated by Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser...
Hands Off Fontana. This pass at Fontana made Henry Kaiser roar. Fontana has long been the apple of his eye. He built it in 1942 despite all that the War Production Board could do to stop him, now looks on it as the keystone of a Kaiser postwar empire. Said he: "Fontana is not and will not be for sale." Kaiser repeated an old promise. He plans to operate Fontana himself after the war, would sink another $37,000,000 into Fontana to convert it to peacetime steelmaking...
Henry Wallace, battling for a place in the Fourth Term sun, began his week with a speech in Manhattan. He was flanked by Henry Kaiser and Eleanor Roosevelt; his ears were ringing with a felicitous endorsement from Franklin Roosevelt: ". . . a clear voice to the conscience and the hopes of men everywhere...
Promised to be the first of a series of vessels named after American universities, a Victory Ship named "S.S. Harvard Victory" was launched Tuesday in a Kaiser yard at Richmond, California. The "S.S. Harvard Victory" has a dead weight of 10800 tons, larger than the Liberty Ships...