Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never before have U.S. automakers been so much on the defensive-or in such deep trouble. Testifying before officials of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington last week, executives of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors stated that their vehicles could not meet the strict-and, Detroit says, unrealistic -standards for exhaust emissions set by Congress in the Clean Air Act of 1970. Each of the companies asked for more time-at least one year-to produce cleaner cars...
...sign: DO NOT TOUCH THIS CAR UNLESS YOU ARE COMPLETELY NUDE!). Near by a crowd is gathering in front of the "Archie Bunker Hard Hat Hauler." The Hauler features a lunch-bucket gas tank, a chromed hard-hat roof, a forklift front bumper and a 500-h.p. Chrysler hemi-head engine with Triple GMC 671 blowers...
...Haiti, Clinton Knox, 64, seemed to have no need for the bodyguards that protect American envoys in other turbulent countries. Thus he was unsuspecting of danger as he drove to his home outside Port-au-Prince last week. Suddenly, a blue car shot in front of his black Chrysler. A woman and two men, one of them carrying a gun, jumped out and warned: "Do as we say, and no harm will come to you." They forced Knox into an upstairs sitting room of his house...
...process quaintly called Aqua Sans may be the answer. It was created by the Chrysler Corp. in response to a request by the U.S. Navy for an improved way to handle wastes aboard ships. "We didn't want anything to go overboard," says Ralph Loomis, project manager of Chrysler's waste treatment systems in Michoud, La. "We decided we had to have a closed-loop system...
...credit was becoming difficult to raise. He quickly had to arrange a $290 million line of credit, as he says, "just to keep the company afloat." All but a few of White's high executives had left; to replace them, Knudsen recruited from the senior ranks of GM, Chrysler, Ford, Borg Warner, Sperry Rand and W.R. Grace. Then he consolidated the company's many truck lines, which were engaged in a debilitating competition against each other. After selling off Diamond Reo, he pulled together the four remaining lines-Autocar, White, White Freightliner and White Western Star -under...