Word: willow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...either side of the Danube, in the Altenburg district of Lower Austria, there is a stretch of dense willow forests, impenetrable scrub, reed-grown marshes and drowsy backwaters. Red and roe deer, herons and cormorants hunt there. Muskrats come down from Bohemia, and heavy-bodied stags recall the days when Francis Joseph I imported wapiti from America for the royal hunt...
...first glance, said Odium, the proposed deal had looked attractive. There were reasons why it should: Convair could use K-F's big Willow Run plant to make aircraft; in peacetime, it could make automobiles; moreover, Kaiser-Frazer had piled up some $49 million in losses which the merged companies could use as an offset against Convair's excess-profits taxes...
...head of the shipyards Clay Bedford hit on the idea of building ships in prefabricated sections. At war's end, Bedford went to Willow Run as Kaiser-Frazer's production chief, soon became known as a brilliant "swap guy," chasing all over the U.S. for scarce materials to keep K-F's production lines rolling. When Wilson tapped him for the Office of Defense Mobilization, Bedford had just spent his first night in a new home in Oakland, Calif., where he was to manage K-F's West Coast defense production...
Other Kaiser projects are also booming. Kaiser Steel Corp., which paid off its $123 million Government debt about five months ago, earned $4.3 million in the last six months of 1950. Even Kaiser-Frazer Corp. has picked up. Cars are rolling off the Willow Run assembly line at the rate of 900 a day (half Kaisers, half Henry J.s), and dealers have more orders than they can handle. With an estimated $500 million in defense orders on the books, including an Air Force contract for Fairchild Packet cargo planes, another for Wright aircraft engines, K-F seemed a likely candidate...
...which sent our clipper ships around the world in spite of the pirates of Barbary, which put Perry into Nippon and John Paul Jones into the Russian Navy! More power to you! Let's wake up and quit thinking in terms of little loops!"-Philip R. White of Willow Grove...