Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Style changes this year are far from radical; most manufacturers have opted to streamline existing models-adding a little chrome here, taking a little there. The sporty flair initiated by the Ford Mustang in 1964 is everywhere in evidence. Most of the emphasis is on the "intermediate"-more than a compact, but less than a full-size car. Says Ford Division General Manager Matt McLaughlin: "The real battleground for sales in 1968 is going to be in the intermediate field." Lincoln-Mercury is betting on its Montego line, of which two models resemble the popular Cougar. General Motors is also...
Rhodesia, says the Sunday Times, produces six key commodities for sale abroad: tobacco, sugar, asbestos, copper, chrome and iron. According to the newspaper's careful study of world markets, Rhodesia today "is selling all the asbestos and copper she sold before, around a third of the chrome, almost half the iron ore and a third of the tobacco." Only on sugar have the sanctions worked. As a result, Rhodesia will earn some $150 million this year, selling goods in defiance of U.N. sanctions-goods that enter world markets bearing false bills of origin from other countries...
...prepared for future problems by setting up a South African subsidiary called Southern Asbestos. Although the mineral still moves straight from Rhodesian mines to a Mozambique port without ever going through South Africa, the company simply supplies each shipment with a South African certificate of origin. Outgoing chrome is usually labeled South African as well and is bought in large quantities by the Japanese. Not long ago, says the Sunday Times, 20,000 tons of chrome ore arrived in Tokyo from "South Africa," and for the 27th time in six months the British embassy lodged a protest with the Japanese...
...years ago, Berry Gordy Jr. was making $90 a week as a chrome trimmer on a Ford Motor Co. assembly line near Detroit. At 37, he is still applying finishing touches, but now he owns the whole assembly line. Instead of autos, he rolls out pop records - and has become a millionaire several times over...
...result is the "Motown sound" -basically the Negro rhythm-and-blues style that has captured a vast white audience in recent years, but now stamped into slick model lines and given the hard chrome gloss that Gordy used to fit into autos. "This is just something we feel and therefore produce," says Gordy. "We've never stopped to think about...