Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...putting together Reagan's successful gubernatorial campaign in 1966, and he plans to use similar techniques for Ford. To help develop ideas for the President's State of the Union message in January, which will amount to his campaign platform, Spencer has hired Market Opinion Research of Detroit to identify Ford's constituency and define the issues that appeal...
Four months after his father disappeared, Son James Hoffa has put his own campaign for union office into gear. Appearing at Teamsters' Local 299 in Detroit, the younger Hoffa, 34, won a landslide election to a $400-per-week job as the local's director of organizers. Meanwhile, his father fired a few parting shots in the December issue of Playboy, which had interviewed him before he vanished on July 30. "The only guy who needs a bodyguard is a liar, a cheat, a guy who betrays friendship," Jimmy told Playboy's reporter. "Never was afraid...
Turned Corner. Though the sales figures represented only the second consecutive good ten-day reporting period, they signaled to auto executives that Detroit was rebounding along with the U.S. economy. "Our business turned the corner with the introduction of the 1976 models," declared Ford President Lee lacocca. Chevrolet General Manager Robert Lund noted that early October truck sales were also significantly higher: 34% above the 1974 figure. "Trucks are always a weather vane for business," he said. "People buy them to make money with them...
Despite the upturn, no one in Detroit believes that the nation's largest industry is really back in high gear. November production schedules are conservative, amounting to the lowest in 16 years...
Better Shape. Ford plans a modest 3,000-car increase in November over October but intends to put on-line workers on overtime instead of recalling laid-off employees to man the assembly lines. That strategy does not sit well with union leaders. Despite Detroit's improving fortunes, the auto industry's work force has shrunk by 100,000 people in two years; 70,000 are still on indefinite layoff...