Word: autodom
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...price was high, but peace was preserved in autodom...
...another two weeks, while Knudsen wound up his affairs at General Motors and Ford called a directors' meeting to approve his decision, the arrangements remained one of autodom's best-kept secrets. Ford shuffled able but colorless President Arjay Miller, 51, to the new post of vice chairman. As such, Miller will run Ford's finances, legal department, public relations, Washington staff and long-range planning. Knudsen, as chief operating officer, will not only control sales, product development and plant operations, but will also assume full command of the company when Chairman and Chief Executive Ford...
...behind in the exhaust. As the white car approached a school bus and slowed again, the win dows flew up and the children in side chanted: "Mustang! Mustang! Mustang!" This week Ford's new Mustang sports car, one of the most her alded and attention-drawing cars in autodom's history, drives into showrooms all over the U.S. In it rides both a big bundle of Ford's future and the reputation of the man who daily test-drives a different Mustang between Bloomfield Hills and Dearborn. The man is Lido Anthony Iacocca, general manager of Ford...
...American Motors transferred $9,200,000 from the company's fiscal 1963 earnings into gifts of stock for the workers and contributions to their welfare fund. At the same time, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther told an A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Manhattan that he will press autodom's reluctant Big Three for a share of earnings when contract talks open next August...
...Detroit's prestigious Economic Club, hardly a limousine's length away from the National Auto Show, the titans of U.S. autodom last week heard some frank talk from one of their most successful foreign rivals. The outspoken visitor: handsome, hearty Heinz Nordhoff, 63. chairman of West Germany's Volkswagenwerk, which sells in the U.S. one out of every six cars it produces...