Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute which simmered for several weeks last year about whether 1950 or 1951 marks the mid-century point, has started again. Nor is this sort of argument a new thing. One of the few defeats that Kaiser Willhelm H of Germany ever suffered before he blundered into the first wolrld war occurred when a board of scientists reversed an imperial dictum proclaiming that the year 1900 was the beginning of the twentieth century. The experts told the Kaiser that he had a year to wait...
...Stab in the Dark." The sales slowdown caused Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to revise its production schedules to get a firmer footing in the low-priced field. Instead of making two higher-priced Kaisers for every low-priced Henry J, it reversed the ratio. And automen who were talking about raising car prices were taking a hard second look...
...follows one woman, Tabitha Baskett, whose life and strange love weaves through the Victorian Era, the Kaiser War, the depression, and still another war. Her life is a story of changing manners and morals. It starts as a life of revolt, against the humid prudery of a rural town, against the respectability of Victorian London; it ends in resistance to the new fangled ideas of younger revolutionists...
Last week Henry had a different kind of news to report. The RFC, he said, would soon get back the $91 million it had lent to Kaiser Steel, which operates the Fontana (Calif.) steel plant. What was more, Kaiser planned to expand Fontana's capacity by 15% (to 1,380,000 tons a year) and install a tinplate plant with a capacity of 200,000 tons a year. With the tinplate facilities, he hopes to get a big slice of business from the West's canning industry, which consumes some 700,000 tons of tinplate a year, most...
...whole program, said Kaiser, will cost $125 million. Part of the money ($40 million) will come from a new public stock issue of 2,400,000 shares in Kaiser Steel. Of the rest, $60 million will come from the sale of first mortgage bonds to banks and insurance companies and the other $25 million from loans from the Bank of America, the Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. and Chase National Bank...