Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen once articulated his work ethic in those words, and Detroit veterans recalled them when he surprisingly was passed over for the presidency of General Motors in 1968. Sure enough, Knudsen has since found plenty of jobs. He shifted from executive vice president of GM to president of Ford Motor Co., but lost that position after a power struggle with Lee Iacocca, the current president. Then Knudsen founded Rectrans Inc. to produce mobile homes, only to sell out in 1971 to Cleveland's White Motor Corp. Part of the deal was that he would become chairman...
...mite of motorcycles, leaped into the lead of the auto industry's clean-air derby last week. The firm's new low-pollution auto engine became the first ever to pass all the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's emission control criteria for 1975, standards that the Detroit leviathans have tirelessly argued could not be met in time. Honda immediately informed the EPA that it is breaking ranks with most other car producers and would no longer seek a one-year postponement of the 1975 requirements. Company officials say that their compact car, the Civic, now marketed only...
...Detroit automakers, skeptical that such an engine can develop enough power to drive large U.S. cars, are generally unconvinced that the Japanese advance solves their pollution-control problems. They doubt that the engine will meet the EPA's extremely tough standards for 1976, especially those for nitrogen oxide (Honda engineers insist their machine will easily do it). In tests held in Michigan, Honda's four-cylinder engines, using no catalysts, afterburners or other extra emission-reducing devices, posted pollution counts well below EPA ceilings even after running for 50,000 miles. Here, in grams of emission per mile...
...Winkle out of their trance, Van Winkle blinked and drew laughs from observers in the studio by asking: "Now are we going to play?" In fact, most critics who attended the session felt that the duo had played up to or better than their norm-whatever the reason. Said Detroit News Amusement Writer Bill Gray: "The music was good and the duo was incredibly tight. It was definitely a mind blower...
...York's newsstand sales records, skeptics argued that the curiosity of women east of the Hudson River was an unreliable barometer of national interest. When a preview edition was released nationwide in January, the scoffing stopped. The issue's 300,000 copies on newsstands from Detroit to San Francisco to Moscow, Idaho, sold out in eight days and garnered more than 36,000 subscriptions...