Word: daimler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slipped from an average 4.6% on sales in 1960 to 4% in 1961−roughly the same as the U.S.'s top 500. Profits of the 16 biggest foreign automotive companies fell 10.2% despite an 8% sales increase. A notable exception: Germany's ninth-ranked DAIMLER-BENZ−whose earnings soared from $31 million to $50 million on sales of $1.1 billion. Sales of the nine chemical companies rose 13.1%. but their net incomes declined 9.3%. Hardest hit: Britain's fifth-ranked IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, whose profits skidded 28% to $90.6 million...
...Happily backlogged last week with 113,000 Mercedes orders, Stuttgart's Daimler-Benz would not guarantee delivery to German buyers before Christmas 1963, and even foreigners faced several months' wait for some models...
Rodriquez' aliscafi come in two models: the 72-passenger PT 20, which is driven by a 1,350-h.p. Daimler-Benz V12 engine and will make up to 40 knots, and the 140-passenger PT 50. which has two V-12s and does 37 knots. Both were designed by Austrian Engineer Friedrich Lobau, who built his first hydrofoil for Hitler's navy and his second as a prisoner of war in Russia. (The Russian model, he now says...
Unmoved by the defendant's recollection that "I drove various types of vehicles from Alamein to Berlin with no trouble to anyone except the Germans," a London court hit Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, 74, with a $28 fine for steering his Daimler the wrong way on a one-way street-and into another...
...clubs, leads a quiet life with his wife at their Georgian-Victorian country home. His only hobby, says a close friend, "is making Jaguar even better." He is also determined to make it bigger. To get more plant space, he last year bought Jaguar's venerable neighbor, the Daimler Co. Last week Sir William made his boldest move yet: he bought the Coventry plant of defunct Guy Motors, Ltd., where he plans to diversify into trucks. Aim: to have cart horses as well as thoroughbreds to offer when and if Britain gets into the Common Market...