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...Justice Department's new weapons have become powerful deterrents even when not being used. "When we see a merger possibility that we think we're going to be attacked on, we just forget it," says Executive Vice President Gene Trefethen of Kaiser Industries. Stauffer Chemical dropped its plans to buy American Viscose Corp. when the trustbusters showed interest. "It's enormously expensive to defend an antitrust charge," notes Moses Lasky, a San Francisco antitrust lawyer. "Just to have one of them brought against you is extremely serious financially...
...lifetime career of troubleshooting. Father Henry J. worked out the broad ideas that built the Kaiser empire, stubbornly pushed them, in the face of ridicule and skepticism. Behind him, putting the ideas to work, came Edgar and a group of University of California college friends, including Eugene E. Trefethen Jr., new vice chairman of several Kaiser companies, and D. A. ("Dusty") Rhoades, new president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. When Henry J. won a contract to build the main spillway dam at Bonneville, Ore. in the mid '30s, he turned the job over to Edgar, then 25, and Clay...
When Kaiser went into shipbuilding in World War II, Edgar took over half the operation, Trefethen the other half. Despite skepticism from every quarter, the Kaiser shipyards went on to build more vessels than any other shipbuilder during the war. At the same time, the Kaisers also had their first run-in with the steel industry, when they announced plans to build their Fontana steelworks on the West Coast with an RFC loan. Despite the industry's opposition, Kaiser built the largest steel plant west of the Mississippi (in ingot tonnage), paid off the Government loan 20 years ahead...
Clarence L. Hogan was appointed associate professor of Applied Physics; Lloyd M. Trefethen, professor of Mechanical Engineering; and Andrew R. Lang, instructor in Metallurgy...
Hogan, formerly of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, is noted for his successful construction of the microwave gyrator, which in principle permits the simultaneous transmission and reception of a single frequency from the same antenna. Trefethen is currently doing research in the field of fluid mechanics and heat transfer in liquid metals. Since 1951 he has been Technical Aide to the Director of the National Science Foundation in Washington...