Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resplendent in white linen suit, white shoes and lavender tie, had planned for everything, down to the brass band waiting to toot out a welcome at the Las Vegas station. Or had he? Passengers taking in the scenery suddenly noticed a 1923 Chrysler touring car and a 1925 brewery truck following the train on an adjacent road. Rival Hoodlum Barney Weiss apparently had dispatched his own welcoming party to greet Big Jim. From a machine gun mounted on the back of the truck, a Weiss torpedo named Charley Ice fired several bursts at the passing coaches. Two other goons opened...
...does-it yawn. Said one French official: "That American false puritanism makes Americans really think everything is pure in business. Clearly, oil, arms, electronics and telecommunications deals are usually fertilized a bit." The use of agents and consultants is not peculiar to Northrop. Khashoggi has represented Lockheed, Raytheon and Chrysler, and General Stehlin is still listed by Hughes Aircraft as a consultant...
Booted Out? The commission further charged the rental companies with "entering into anticompetitive arrangements" with automakers-Hertz with Ford, Avis with Chrysler and National with General Motors. According to the complaints, the arrangements provide the rental companies with advertising subsidies from the automakers that average $5 million a year to each, and "have the effect of increasing barriers to entry" to smaller companies, which do not get such large subsidies...
Still, the economy would unquestionably get a much bigger shot if consumers spent all the rebate checks immediately, and a few manufacturers have launched special promotions to encourage them to do just that. Chrysler advertises CONGRESS ACTS TO GIVE YOU A TAX REBATE . . . CHRYSLER ACTS TO MAKE IT GO FARTHER. The company is mailing $200 rebate checks of its own to buyers of Darts and Valiants. Some retailers, too, are bidding for the rebate buck. Chicago's Goldblatt Bros., a department store chain, last week promised shoppers a 10% discount "on most items" if they bring in their rebate...
...economic fringe benefits, of which a greater say in their companies is certainly one. Sooner or later, the idea is bound to start sprouting in the U.S. There are no workers on U.S. company boards now, but some union leaders feel that the day is coming. At Chrysler Corp., a move is under way to get employee-elected representation on the company's board, not necessarily a union member but any proven auto executive who could help turn the company around. The wedge would be the estimated 16% of Chrysler's 59 million shares held by union...