Word: chrysler
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...instrument of U.S. imperialism in the Third World. The introduction also blamed urban ills on "America's white ruling class" and pollution on consumers. "We are the villains," it said, "because we drive to work in the only transportation system made available by G.M., Ford and Chrysler." The introduction suggested that Americans emulate China's Maoist revolution and find "new methods of distributing the riches of the world, which in fact belong to all human beings, not only to the Rockefellers, Fords, Du Ponts, Mellons, Rothschilds and their like...
Among likely bidders are Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch industrial complex, and a consortium of British companies led by British Leyland Motors, producer of Jaguars, MGs, Austins and bodies for Rolls-Royces (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler insist that they have no interest). If there are no bids above an undisclosed "reserve" price, estimated by London financiers at $120 million to $150 million, then the sale is off. Otherwise, the company's physical assets will go to the highest bidder, British or foreign-but only if the buyer is a British company will it be allowed to keep the Rolls...
...converters simply are not reliable enough to do the required job. Last week Chrysler Vice President Sydney L. Terry testified that "40% of our test cars using the catalytic system failed within 5,000 miles." For emphasis, his colleague, Engineer Charles M. Heinen, laid a burned metal tube on Ruckelshaus' table. "This is a catalyticconverter failure," he said. "We had temperature sensors and control devices all over it and they didn't do a damn bit of good." Indeed, the word "failure" was repeated again and again in all the automakers' testimony...
California's Way. Chrysler President John Riccardo takes a different tack, insisting that the only immediate solution is to change the requirements of the Clean Air Act. He argues that California, the state with the worst auto pollution, has a more reasonable law, based on what he says are much more complete public health data than were available to Congress in 1970. It sets somewhat more lenient standards on pollutants (see chart) than those in the national...
Given one more year to refine and modify the reciprocating engine, Riccardo insists, Chrysler could probably meet the California standards without using catalytic converters. Thus, he contends, the U.S. could achieve cleaner air without substantial increases in the price of cars and without sacrificing fuel economy; the plan would also make unnecessary the mass purchases of platinum and palladium, and construction of new refining facilities. Furthermore, one more year's production of cars with emissions that have already been significantly reduced would not noticeably degrade air quality. Sensible as Riccardo's proposal sounds, however, changing the provisions...