Word: daimler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Thunderbird), the auto buyer can have anything but a few top models. Everybody is getting into the merchandising act, moving up, down, and all around to tap a foreign-car import market that is expected to top 500,000 units this year. Even England's staid old Daimler, best known for the limousines it builds for Britain's royal family, introduced a car specially designed for the U.S. market: a sleek, two-seater Daimler Dart sports car with speeds up to 123 m.p.h. and gas mileage of better than 30 miles per gal. On sale...
...enviable reputation for fast delivery. Last summer when Saudi Arabia's King Saud decided he needed a three-truck caravan (sleeper with bath, dining car with throne, and a supply van), British and French firms told him he would have to wait six months. West Germany's Daimler-Benz, teaming up with a specialty body firm, did the job in seven weeks...
...main firm. The trend to growth extends beyond iron and coal. Friedrich Flick, a prewar steel baron who was forced to sell off many of his holdings after he was sent to prison as a war criminal, has built a new empire in autos. He got control of Daimler-Benz, joined it with the big Auto Union manufacturer to form Germany's biggest auto moneymaker...
...long enough, got him named director of security for the European Atomic Energy Community in Brussels. But the unforgiving police doggedly continued their investigation, discovered that more than a year ago Kilb acquired a Mercedes 190 SL sports car and, after it had been damaged in an accident, the Daimler-Benz Co. replaced it with a sky-blue Mercedes 220 S cabriolet. What even the most dogged search failed to uncover was any evidence that Bureaucrat Kilb had paid Daimler-Benz so much as a pfennig for either...
...cars to make sure that he would not inconvenience Adenauer by arriving late at top-level government appointments. The fact that Kilb might be in a position to influence the Bonn government's plans for restricting the size of trailer trucks-a subject of considerable interest to Daimler-Benz, as one of West Germany's major manufacturers of trucks-had nothing to do with the case, they said...