Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Model T. The small-car surge has at last convinced automen of an idea they long resisted: that the U.S. motorist is buying a functional car mostly for transportation rather than status, and will no longer automatically buy a larger and larger car as his salary rises. Chrysler Vice President Robert McCurry sees a "blue denim society" developing among drivers, and adds: "The fact that 80% of all the small cars are two-doors shows the demand for personal transportation." Detroit has adopted this theme in its marketing. Ford touts the Pinto as a "new Model T," presumably to suggest...
Prices will go still higher for the 1973 and future model years, because of federal regulations governing auto safety and pollution from exhaust fumes. Chrysler already has announced increases ranging from $14 to $120 on 1973 cars to cover new ignition design and larger standard engines. These price increases average $8.38 across Chrysler's entire car line, within the 4.5% average price increase approved by the Price Commission on the 1972 model cars...
...losses. "Why should you need money?" Ackerman inquires. Death: "What are you talking about? You're going to the Beyond-you know how far that is?" Ackerman: "So?" Death: "So where's gas? Where's tolls?" Nat: "We're going by car!" The Chrysler to oblivion could easily have been concocted by S.J. Perelman. The master parodist's influence shows in another sketch. Notes from the Overfed. Allen writes, after reading Dostoevsky and Weight Watchers magazine on the same plane trip: "I am fat. I am disgustingly fat ... My fingers are fat. My wrists...
Landslides. Some 30 firms-including AT&T, IBM, Gulf Oil, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler-have faced proxy challenges from environmentalists, civil rights activists, consumer advocates and church groups. Other corporations, like McDonnell Douglas and Continental Oil, have had to cope with demonstrations against company policies or last-minute proposals from dissidents with token stockholdings. True, the shareholding public seems largely indifferent to pleas from activists. In three annual onslaughts against General Motors, the Project on Corporate Responsibility has never polled more than 2.3% on any of its proposals -despite the support of more than 20 churches, 15 universities, five...
...merit revival at next year's meeting. A proposal that Warner-Lambert study the effect of its advertising on drug abuse won 3.2% of the votes. A motion to include women, employees, consumers and blacks on boards of directors earned 3.9% at AT&T and 4.2% at Chrysler. Also at Chrysler, a resolution for disclosure of information on safety, pollution and minority hiring polled 4.5%. At other annual meetings, managements disposed of such affronts with ease, like Gulf Oil's 98%-to-2% trouncing of a demand for full disclosure of its activities in racially oppressive Portuguese Angola...