Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been kidnaped," he told Luis. The receiver was clicked off at Sam's end in less than a minute. "He sounded very sad, very nervous," recalled Luis. "Sam is a very sweet boy." Edgar Bronfman notified the FBI and the local police. They soon found Sam's car parked in the garage at his mother's house, the key still in the ignition. His mother was away on a cruise. Servants in a separate building reported hearing nothing unusual...
...Yorktown house. Apparently realizing the impracticality of handling $4.6 million in the denominations asked-the mass would weigh about 1,000 Ibs.-the kidnapers cut their demand in half, now asking for $2.3 million. The drop was set for Wednesday night. Bronfman was to put the money in a car and personally take it to John F. Kennedy International Airport, then wait at a specific public telephone booth...
...shot to death, and their mutilated bodies were thrown down a 120-ft. well in front of Zelaya's hacienda. Seven other victims were found in the well-five who were presumed to be peasant activists, plus two innocent women visitors who had been riding in the car with Betancourt...
...averaging 3.8% on many products (earlier, several companies had tried to raise flat-rolled steel, the kind that goes into autos and appliances, about 9%). American Motors became the first automaker to make public tentative price rises on 1976 models; A.M.C.'s will average 5.8%, or $200 a car. The moves, taken together with aluminum increases going into effect this month, seem to indicate that major corporations are boosting prices to recover cost increases they swallowed during the recession...
...enjoyed a 33% rise, mainly because lower costs for sugar, wheat and shortening fattened profit margins. Another pleasant surprise: General Motors reported net income up more than 400% above the first quarter, and 8.8% ahead of a year ago, on the strength of a long-awaited pickup in its car sales. American Motors also showed a healthy increase: net income rose to $10.1 million, v. a $47.8 million first-quarter loss...