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3 unusual facts about Kaiser Ventures


Kaiser Ventures

It sold land in Fontana to Penske Motorsports to create the California Speedway and leased its water rights to San Bernardino County.

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The Journals of Ayn Rand include numerous items on the plant's daily routine, including both detailed technical information on the process of smelting and the terminology involved, for example: "Blast furnaces are usually named after women. The one at Kaiser's is named 'Bess' after Mrs. Kaiser and is referred to by the workers as 'Old Bess'".

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Writer Ayn Rand visited Kaiser Steel in October 1947, as part of her research for the novel Atlas Shrugged, a large part of which takes place at the fictional "Rearden Steel".



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