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Henry J. Kaiser - Wikipedia

With his wealth, he established the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, non-partisan, charitable organization. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._…

Production of Kaiser-Frazer models was centered at Willow Run, Michigan. Willow Run, the largest building in the world at that time, was built by the U.S. government just prior to World War II for Henry Ford to build B-24 Liberator bombers. Once the war ended, Ford had no

interest in the facility, and the War Assets Administration began a search for someone to lease or buy the building. When K-F expressed interest in the facility, the WAA offered them an attractive five-year lease rate. K-F also had manufacturing facilities in Jefferson MI;

Long Beach CA; Portland OR; Leaside, Ontario, Canada; Haifa, Israel; Kawasaki, Japan;[1] Mexico City and Rotterdam (known as "Nekaf", for Nederlandse Kaiser-Frazer fabrieken). U.S. production was concentrated at Toledo, Ohio, upon the purchase of Willys-Overland starting in

1953; the Willow Run facility was sold to General Motors after GM suffered a disastrous fire at their Livonia, Michigan, Hydramatic automatic transmission plant and needed a facility quickly to resume production.

With the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Ford Motor

Company sought to invest in the new state, and to facilitate the production of a large number of vehicles Israel would need for the military and the government. Ford announced plans to build an assembly plant in Israel.
When Arab nations got word of Ford’s plans, they announced

that if Ford didn't cancel the agreement, they’d boycott it by putting the company on the Arab League’s blacklist. Ford pulled out causing a moment of crisis for the Israeli government. While the government was searching for alternatives, Lord Marcus Sieff of London, contacted

Efraim Ilin, an Israeli security expert and tycoon, and put him in contact with Hickman Price of Kaiser-Frazer.

In 1938 Ilin was drafted by Avraham Stern to volunteer in the Irgun. He worked with Stern and David Raziel who was one of its founding members. In 1948, together with

Ehud Avriel, Ilin, who was then living in Milan, negotiated a deal with Czechoslovakia to supply arms for the IDF.[1] In 1948 Ilin also negotiated an arms equipment deal with Levi Eshkol and the Yugoslavians on behalf of the Mossad.

In 1948, after the founding of the State of Israel, the Ford Motor Company sought to invest in Israel and facilitate the large number of vehicles it would need for the military and government. After threats of boycotts from the Arab nations, Ford backed down.
While the government

was searching for alternatives, Lord Marcus Sieff of London, put Ilin in contact with Hickman Price of Kaiser-Frazer. Kaiser had recently built an automobile plant in the Netherlands, and were planning to build an additional one in Greece. Ilin met Price and the two agreed to

begin a $2.5 million project. Kaiser-Frazer was prepared to invest half a million dollars and it would be Ilin's responsibility to invest the other two million dollars. In 1950, Ilin, who was unsure if the investment would be successful, traveled to Brooklyn, N.Y. to meet

Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson for advice on the matter. Kaiser was opened in Israel in 1951.
The factory in Israel built Kaiser-Frazer products, along with Mack trucks, under license. By 1956, Kaiser-Fraizer was responsible for 28% of Israeli exports. By the end of the 1950s, the

operation was known as Kaiser-Ilin, named after Ilin.
In 1959, Kaiser-Ilin reached an agreement to assemble six-cylinder Studebaker Larks in Haifa, to help potential buyers bypass stiff Israeli duties on imported vehicles. Earlier that year, the Kaiser-Frazer plant at Haifa

laid off 400 workers and suspended operations for two weeks because of a lack of parts. Within months after the formation of AMC, George Mason died on October 8, 1954, at age 63 of acute pancreatitis and pneumonia in Detroit, Michigan and was buried in White Chapel Memorial

Cemetery.[10] Mason's protégé, AMC Vice President George W. Romney, succeeded Mason as Chairman and CEO. One of Romney's first acts was to stop rumors that there were additional merger talks between AMC and Studebaker-Packard Corporation or any automakers. According to Mason's

obituary in Time magazine, had AMC and Studebaker-Packard joined, it would have resulted in the second largest automaker in the world, behind General Motors. In 1740 Peter Studebaker built his home on a property known as “Bakers Lookout”. (The home still stands in Hagerstown,

Maryland.) “Barbara and I packed, and I drove my red Studebaker from the Eastern states of our upbringing to the oil fields of West Texas,” Bush recalled about 18 months into his term as president. “And we chose a future that would be uniquely our own. And like most Americans,

we were free to live where we pleased, do what we wanted.
“We came of age at a time when the postwar possibilities of America seemed limitless.”Limitless is owned by Les Wexner, an American businessman who is currently chairman and former CEO of the L Brands corporation

(formerly Limited Brands, and best known for its brand Victoria's Secret).

At BCG, he was a colleague of Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he formed a friendship that has lasted for more than 40 years.
In 1977, he was hired by Bain & Company, a management consulting firm in Boston formed a few years earlier by Bill Bain and several other ex-BCG

employees.Bain later said of the 30-year-old Romney, "He had the appearance of confidence of a guy who was maybe ten years older." Unlike other consulting firms, which issued recommendations and then departed, Bain & Company immersed itself in a client's businesses and worked

with them until changes were implemented. Romney became a vice president of the firm in 1978, working with such clients as the Monsanto Company, Outboard Marine Corporation, Burlington Industries, and Corning Incorporated. from 1977 to 1985 Rumsfeld served as chief executive

officer, president, and then chairman of G. D. Searle & Company, a worldwide pharmaceutical company based in Skokie, Illinois. During his tenure at Searle, Rumsfeld led the company's financial turnaround, thereby earning awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the

Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981). In 1985, Searle was sold to the Monsanto Company.

Deadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at Army Lab Over Safety Concerns
Problems with disposal of dangerous materials led the government to suspend research at the military’s leading biodefense center.