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...sales, the firm would drop the word steel from its name. After considering more than 200 possibilities, including Amcor and USSA, the company decided to call itself USX because its symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is X. In London, BL, the financially struggling government-controlled auto group formerly known as British Leyland, said it hopes to spruce up its image by renaming itself the Rover Group...
With gasoline prices low and fears of terrorism and radioactive fallout abroad relatively high, U.S. drivers are expected to hit the road in record numbers in 1986. In its latest survey, the American Automobile Association forecasts that some 95 million Americans will take auto trips this summer, an 8% increase over 1985. Many of those motorists are bound to indulge in a familiar American pastime: avoiding speed traps. Indeed, U.S. drivers in ever increasing numbers are turning for help in that unsporting effort to one of the hottest of automobile accessories, the miniature radar detector...
...FORMER auto-workers displaced from Michigan who are now former service workers unemployed in depressed Texas, here's a suggestion: Pack up your U-Hauls and drive even further south...
...display such sympathies in the Depression made management look benign. When Edsel Ford wanted to celebrate the Rouge complex and the auto industry, he got Rivera to paint a mural cycle in Detroit; it attracted 86,000 visitors in its first month. Rivera had no problems in casting American engineers as the heroes of a new age. Encouraged by this, John D. Rockefeller in 1932 commissioned a Rivera mural, Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future, for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. Rivera put in a head...
...Christopher Collet); that his coconspirator, Jenny, is played by a picture of innocence named Cynthia Nixon; that the exchange takes place at a high school science fair, where the competing projects involve things like soap bubbles and gerbils--and that they really do have an A-bomb in her auto...