Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company's efforts exclusively in the compact field. Though Romney is now Governor of Michigan, AMC is still selling Romney-selected compacts because of the two-year lead time needed to produce new models. Meanwhile, the auto-buying public's taste has strongly swung back to bigger, flashier and more luxurious cars. Compacts now account for only 18% of auto sales, and AMC is stranded without the right variety of cars for today's prospering auto market...
Shifting. Many months of politicking went into the resolution. Last September Washington Lawyer Joel Barlow, the Chamber director who earlier had engineered the organization's approval of the tax cut bill, proposed that the Chamber speak up for bigger U.S. business with the East. With the enthusiastic support of outgoing President Edwin P. Neilan, he organized a team of backers, including Caterpillar Tractor President William Blackie, Anderson Clayton Vice President Norman Ness and Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin Canham, a former Chamber president...
...good deal of bakery flour is sold at a loss." Since the Korean war, says he, the millers' profit margin in the sale of bakery flour has held at 1% of the retail price of a loaf of white bread. Actually, argues Pillsbury, the Government has a bigger hand than the millers in setting prices. The cost of wheat makes up five-sixths of the flour price, and Government crop-support programs are the major factor in determining the wheat price...
...June, a Lockheed Constellation with dummy passengers aboard will be similarly crashed. Such bigger and better crackups, air safety experts are convinced, will prove giant strides not only toward getting passengers safely down to earth but also toward allowing them to walk away from a wreck...
...will not be an easy job. The Tigers are a feeble version of the team that terrorized the league in the past, but they are bigger than ever and undoubtedly disgruntled at their ignominious comedown...