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  Henry J. Kaiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Foundation, not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries, is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.
Kaiser is also noted for advancing medicine with the development and construction of several hospitals, medical centers and medical schools.
Kaiser is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
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 Kaiser Motors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kaiser Motors, a subsidiary of Kaiser Industries, was a manufacturer of automobiles in the United States from 1946 - 1963 based in Willow Run, Michigan (USA).
Kaiser Dragon, a large, low riding car with curvacious styling and a unique front windshield outline, having a descending dip in the upper center.
Kaiser continued automobile production in Argentina under the IKA name and in Brazil under the Willys name, using the dies formerly employed in the U.S. well into the 1960s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaiser_(automobile)   (316 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Henry J. Kaiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kaiser Motors produced cars and jeeps between 1946 and 1954 until declining sales forced the closing of domestic operations.
Kaiser Aluminium was founded by American industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, which entered the aluminium business in 1946 with the purchase of two government-owned aluminium facilities in Washington state.
Kaiser was a prominent American industrialist known as the father of modern shipbuilding.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Henry-J.-Kaiser   (1967 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Kaiser (automobile)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kaiser Motors, a subsiderary of Kaiser Industries, was a manufacturer of automobiles in the United States from 1946 - 1963 based in Willow Run, Michigan (USA).
Kaiser continued automobile production in Argentina and Brazil using the dies formerly employed in the U.S. well into the 1960s.
While Kaiser denoted both the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire (962 - 1806) (the "First Reich") and of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empire (1806 - 1918), in English usage the title is mainly associated with the emperors of the unified German Empire (1871 - 1918) (the "Second Reich").
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kaiser-(automobile)   (428 words)

  
 Torque motors - Kaiser Motoren GmbH
The speed-torque characteristics of the torque motors in the main correspond to the opposite figure (a).
Torque motors are especially suitable for driving guide rolls and similar parts for manufacturing processes, so that the self friction torque does not have to be genera- ted by the material.
In this case, the torque of the winding motor must be determined as precisely as possible as too large selected motors can lead to considerable problems due to the limited controlling range.
www.kaiser-motoren.de /en/torque_motors.htm   (475 words)

  
 Willys
From 1912 to 1918 Willys was the second largest producer of automobiles in the United States behind only Ford Motor Company.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Willys was an unremarkable automaker based in Toledo, Ohio, one of dozens in the U.S. It was one of several bidders when the Department of the Army[?] sought an automaker who could begin rapid production of a lightweight truck based on a prototype designed by Bantam[?].
The company was sold to American Motors Corporation (AMC) in 1970 when Kaiser Industries decided to leave the automobile business.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Willys.html   (574 words)

  
 Reluctance motors - Kaiser Motoren GmbH
KAISER reluctance motors are suitable for a permanent operation with the stated increased current.
These motors therefore should not be installed in plants with an extreme inertia moment and a temporary operation near to the no-load operation.
KAISER reluctance motors are installed in the normal three phase standard motor housings.
www.kaiser-motoren.de /en/reluctance_motors.htm   (1375 words)

  
 American Motors
American Motors was the company created by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motorcar Company in 1954.
Kaiser swallowed up Fraser and Willys; while Packard merged with Studebaker, and Nash went with Hudson.
The plan of then-Chairman of Nash, George Mason, was to eventually merge Stude-Packard with Nash-Hudson and then, taking the various strengths of each partner and creating a cohesive larger company on the model of Chrysler or Ford, to share subassemblies, engines and other parts across all divisions in an effort to become an all-market player.
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 Kaiser Motors: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Argentina is a country in southern south america, situated between the andes in the west and the southern atlantic ocean in the east....
Kaiser motors, a subsidiary of kaiser industries, was a manufacturer of automobiles in the united states from 1946 - 1963 based in willow run, michigan...
The united states motor company (usmc) was organized by benjamin briscoe in 1910....
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 Fairchild C-119 "Boxcar"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
During the remainder of 1953 and into 1954 the termination contract was under negotiation; the 1953 Kaiser Motors Annual Report indicated that as of March 1, 1954 the final details had not been agreed to.
It was a fl eye for Henry Kaiser, as deliveries were behind schedule and costs were over originally quoted figures, due in part to Kaiser-Frazer's repeated "reinventing of the wheel" when it came to revisions because Fairchild would not share information.
Among the materials prepared by Kaiser Motors for use in testimony of Edgar and Henry Kaiser before the O'Konski Congressional Committee Hearings in June 1953 are two charts.
www.ruudleeuw.com /c119_kaiser-fraser_mystery.htm   (2848 words)

  
 Memories of Milan
Kaiser incredibly had the new auto plant up and running in time to market cars in 1946.
The original Kaiser autos were a scaled down version of the Frazer, which was a luxury car.
There was a great Kaiser joke making the rounds at that time, but I doubt that he told it because two men of the cloth are in the group.
archives.heritage.com /sr/20031016/N01EJRC.htm   (1026 words)

  
 CanadianDriver: Motoring Memories - Kaiser Darrin
Kaiser-Frazer Corp. was formed when Henry Kaiser, of construction and Liberty ship building fame, and Joseph Frazer, president of Graham-Paige Motors, teamed up after the Second World War to establish a new automobile manufacturer named Kaiser-Frazer.
Kaiser was apparently cool toward the two-seater when he first saw it, but when his new wife saw it she was so enthusiastic that she won him over.
Another was that Willys Motors, Inc. (which K-F had become in 1953) had a dealership network that was shrinking as customers perceived that the company's cars were a dying breed.
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 Kaiser Kaiser for sale
Kaiser continued automobile production in Argentina and Brazil under the IKA name using the dies formerly employed in the U.S. well into the 1960s.
Kaiser and Frazer continued at odds until Frazer left the company in 1951 and the car with the Frazer nameplate was dropped at the end of a short 10,000 unit production run.
In 1970 the Kaiser Jeep Corporation was sold to to American Motors Corporation who continued to manufacture Jeep vehicles until AMC was purchased by Chrysler in 1987 for $360 million.
www.antiquecar.com /index.php?a=5&b=947&c=15   (1533 words)

  
 - toledoblade.com -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Girard became superintendent of the Kaiser shipyard in Vancouver, Wash., where Liberty ships and other vessels were built at a rate of one a week during World War II.
Kaiser became "works manager" at the company's manufacturing facility at Willow Run, Mich., which produced 345,000 cars over his two years there.
After Jeep was sold to American Motors Corp., he stayed with Kaiser Industries Corp. and became president and CEO and a member of the board of directors.
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 AMC V8 engines - history, descriptions, and more
American Motors' first family of homegrown V8s is not well known to most enthusiasts, and there is a great deal of confusion about their origins, especially the 327 version.
Kaiser and his people were defined by a kind of "can-do" optimism which was a part of every project they tackled.
While Kaiser was incredibly successful where "prettification" of the product was concerned - their Art and Colour department, under Carleton Spencer, did more to get auto upholstery out of the mohair era than any one other manufacturer - they were less successful in mechanical upgrades.
www.allpar.com /mopar/amc-engines.html   (3096 words)

  
 Welcome at the Simca and Nekaf site!
Henry J. Kaiser was mostly well known, he had made name with his unusual way of doing business, by which he scored remarkable successes.
Kaiser's ambitions went further, he had the idea to introduce a cheap, popular American car.
Kaiser didn't favour a decrease of the production and because the majority of the management existed of Californian friends, he could exhort that the production was put on 200.000 cars.
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 Health Care Marketplace | General Motors Reports Lower-Than-Expected Earnings; Health Costs Played a Role - ...
General Motors, which has been "plagued by fast-rising pension and health care liabilities," is cautioning investors that a "faster-than-expected surge in health care costs, among other factors," likely will prevent the company from reaching its "mid-decade goal" of a net profit of $10 per share, a goal that was announced in 2002, the
The Securities and Exchange Commission last month requested information on how GM and five other companies calculate the cost of providing health care to their retirees and their return on pension investments.
Kaisernetwork.org is a free service of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=26766   (514 words)

  
 Kaiser Health -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1806 - 1918) also used the title ''Kaiser.'' In English usage, however, the title is mainly associated with the emperors of the unified German Empire (1871 - 1918) (the "Second Reich").
For large α, the shape of the Kaiser window tends to a Gaussian curve.
SMS ''Kaiser'' was the name-ship of the ''Kaiser'' class of battleships of the German Kaiserliche Marine in World War I. She was built at Kiel and was launched on 22 March 1911 and commissioned on 1 August 1912.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/82/kaiser-health.html   (865 words)

  
 Willys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
From1912 to 1918 Willys was the second largest producer of automobiles in the United States behind only Ford Motor Company.
In the 1920s and 1930s,Willys was an unremarkable automaker based in Toledo, Ohio, one of dozensin the U.S. It was one of several bidders when the Department of the Army sought an automaker who could begin rapid production of alightweight truck based on a prototype designed by American Bantam.
The company was sold to American Motors Corporation (AMC) in 1970 when Kaiser Industries decided toleave the automobile business.
www.therfcc.org /willys-34998.html   (572 words)

  
 Henry_J._Kaiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Image:henryjkaiseroverhawaiikai.jpgthumb300pxHenry J. Kaiser perches above Hawai'i Kai in April 1963, his suburban development in Honolulu.
His mining town of Eagle Mountain, California, part of the West Coast's first integrated mining/processing operation linked by rail to his mill in Fontana, California, was the birthplace of the Kaiser Permanente health maintenance organization.
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 Kaiser GmbH
The motorized cable reels manuf actured by KAISER company are mainly provided with stop motors.
Those motors are designed as brake motors which is a combined design of a short circuit rotor and a spring pressure brake.
There is available a lot of accessories for those motorized cable reels like cable guiders and pull reliefs.
www.kaisergmbh.net /index.php?sid=16&mid=17&lang=2   (140 words)

  
 Historic Civilian Jeeps
These were the first general production civilian Jeeps produced by Willys-Overland Motors, based on the World war II military Jeep and powered by a 134 c.i.
The full size Jeeps were introduced by Kaiser Jeep for the 1963 model year to replace the Willys truck and Utility wagon lines.
Kaiser Jeep followed in 1970 with a very limited production version called the Renegade I. This package included eight inch steel wheels with 6.70-15 4-ply tires, swing-away spare tire carrier, rollbar, ammeter and oil gauge and came in Renegade purple or Lime green with a "Renegade" accessory racing stripe.
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 Willys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
From to 1918 Willys was the second largest of automobiles in the United States behind Ford Motor Company.
In 1920s and 1930s Willys was an unremarkable automaker based Toledo Ohio one of dozens in the U.S. was one of several bidders when the of the Army sought an automaker who begin rapid production of a lightweight truck on a prototype designed by American Bantam.
The company was sold to American Motors Corporation (AMC) in 1970 when Kaiser decided to leave the automobile business.
www.freeglossary.com /Willys-Overland   (823 words)

  
 SJ engines 1963-1991 - Copyright © 2001 John Meister
Lubrication technology was not very advanced in the early 1960s and the motor oil was not formulated well enough to maintain proper lubrication.
This move was announced by James Beattie, Kaiser Jeep Corporation's vice-president-marketing who explained that rather than wait for the new model year to begin, Kaiser's policy was to announce product improvements as they became available.
Motor Trend, September, 1965, tested a Wagoneer with a complement of options...
www.wagoneers.com /FSJ/tech/Engines/FSJ-engines-ALL/Engines-FSJ.html   (1352 words)

  
 wrangler4you.com - Kaiser-Jeep, Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, Willys-Motors Corp.
Der Jeep Gladiator Pick-up gab Kaiser Jeep die Chance sich mit den "Big Three" aus Detroit zu messen, vor allem was Styling sowie Ausstattung anging.
Edgar Kaiser, zu der Zeit Vorstandsvorsitzender der Kaiser-Gruppe, setzte neue Prioritäten und konzentrierte sich auf Bergwerke, Aluminium, Chemie und Bau.
Kaiser erhielt dadurch eine Geldspritze und mit seinem Aktienanteil die Möglichkeit, jederzeit wieder im Automobilgewerbe tätig werden zu können.
www.wrangler4you.com /Kaiser-Jeep.htm   (996 words)

  
 Kaiser (Begriffsklärung) - Wikipedia
Kaiser ist die Bezeichnung für einen Monarchen, siehe Kaiser.
Kaiser bezeichnet ein Gebirge der nördlichen Kalkalpen, siehe: Kaisergebirge
Als Kaiser werden bestimmte Spielkarten in einem Kartenspiel bezeichnet, siehe: Kaisern (Kartenspiel)
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 Phony Pose, "Oh, We Disclose," Hurts Kaiser, Kurtz Adviser! Mickey Kaus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Charles Kaiser, in a letter to the New Republic, makes a point that TNR's Franklin Foer left out of his recent attack on Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz.
Kaiser writes: "It is inconceivable that The Washington Post would allow this kind of conflict of interest for anyone covering any other beat.
Kaiser's brother, Robert--associate editor of the Post--had a letter defending Kurtz in the same TNR issue.
www.slate.com /id/1005536   (949 words)

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