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KAISER moved into automaking, and Edgar again got a big job-running Kaiser-Frazer. But the auto industry proved too tough to crack. K.-F. lost about $52 million before it stopped making passenger cars. Edgar cut the loss by buying up the assets of Jeep-maker Willys-Overland, now Willys Motors, which last year contributed $6,848,000 in earnings to Kaiser Industries. In 1954 he moved West to take charge of the Kaiser empire, and Henry J. headed for Hawaii to build a new empire there, including his latest enthusiasm: a $350 million resort-residential city on East...
Berlin. In the event of a Red blockade of Berlin, the U.S. would face a poor tactical position. Destruction of bridges, railways and roads could block overland supplies, and radar jamming could make mass airlifts difficult. Berlin's biggest need would be the raw materials on which its new industrial prosperity is based. The city gets much of this from East Germany itself, and the President fears that the West might not be able to fill the demand if normal supplies were...
...sustaining show, CBS's Captain Kangaroo (weekdays 8:15-9 a.m., Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m., E.D.T.) has it made. Last month the good captain got his first new set, an ark called the S.S. Treasure House; last week captain and crew alike made an overland trip to tape their show at the Minneapolis Aquatennial. All the winds are fair, and by fall, Captain Kangaroo will have a full supply of sponsors for the first time...
...raise money, he was jailed for 22 months. His most ambitious moneymaking venture, which gave Novelist Kenneth Roberts the title for his book about Rogers, was to find a northwest passage to the Pacific. But debt, circumstance and such enemies as Gage kept him from searching for the ' overland route that the Lewis & Clark expedition found in 1805. During the American Revolution, he offered his services to General Washington, fought briefly for the British after he was turned down. After the war, in one of U.S. history's more jarring ironies, his name was listed among those forbidden...
...even clerks and secretaries can afford the camera safari, which provides them with a peaceful look at wildlife in the unfettered flesh and fascinating movie footage to amaze the folks back home. Nairobi's Overland Motor Co. offers a 15-day tour of game areas by car for a comparatively modest $700, including round-trip air fare from Europe. Overland, which expected about 50 tourists at most during the first three months of 1959, now expects the total to top 800 before the season is over. The animals in East Africa's national parks, secure in the protection...