Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, after long months of price cuts and production gluts, the aluminum industry was shining brighter again. Following the lead of frdnt-running Alcoa, which commands just over one-third of the domestic market, producers boosted prices of building sheets by 2? to 3? a lb. Kaiser Aluminum, the third biggest manufacturer, raised its production to 90% of capacity (v. $2% in April). And second-ranking Reynolds, risking prediction once again, forecast that the industry's output would rise from 2,000,000 tons last year to a record 2,550,000 tons...
...snapping back from their sharpest slump, aluminum makers have learned many a hard lesson-most notably that their days of growth by quantum leaps are behind them. Says Vice President Howard Holmes of Kaiser Aluminum: "The future looks good, but it's going to be tougher for our industry to grow. We're going to have to spend more for research and promotion to build acceptance of new products. The plums have pretty well fallen off the tree...
...rejected as a candidate to do a monument to Novelist Emile Zola. Aix-en-Provence commissioned a monument to his beloved Cézanne, then refused to accept the finished statue, a reclining nude. Even when Maillol found a sympathetic patron, Count Harry Kessler, art adviser to the German Kaiser, it turned out badly. World War I broke out, and the French angrily concluded that Maillol was pro-German, dismissed his beautiful nudes as so many plump Fräulein...
Around the Skeleton. An interested spectator at the Civil War balloon experiments was a young German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...
...Henry J. Kaiser's Foundation Medical Care Program, with eleven hospitals, 800 doctors and 800,000 subscribers in the Pacific Coast states and Hawaii, offers womb-to-tomb care, hospital and medical (including psychiatry), for $15.55 a month for family...