Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field. Some, like the Oldsmobile Cutlass-the nation's most popular model this year-are not only being reduced in size and weight but also redesigned with boxy, hatchback-like profiles in order to retain interior passenger and cargo space. Oldsmobile will market the first mass-produced diesel models in U.S. auto history. Some lines will be scrapped altogether; Ford will drop its dated, slow-selling Comets and Mavericks and replace them with new compacts, the Fairmont and Zephyr, that will sport a lean European profile and rectangular head lamps...
With his rimless glasses, thinning gray hair and predilection for white belts and shoes, Winpisinger hardly looks the part of a radical labor leader; nor do his background and hobbies fit the image of a firebrand. The son of a Cleveland printer, Wimpy started as a diesel mechanic, slowly worked his way up the I.A.M. ladder and today maintains a complete mechanical shop in his home in Wheaton, Md., where he repairs neighbors' lawnmowers as well as his own Oldsmobile and Chevy. But he is one labor leader who states proudly: "I don't mind being called...
...Diesels In. By 1985, the V-8 engine, which today goes into 77% of all GM cars, will be dead; the last ones will go into 1983 Corvettes. Only one-third of GM's 1985 cars will even have six-cylinder engines; two-thirds will have four-cylinder power plants. Diesel engines will drive 25% of the company's fleet, at least if the regulations on how much nitrogen oxide they can pour into the air are not tightened further. Diesels are noisy, smoky and heavier than gasoline engines, but they burn less fuel...
...also from new small cars to be brought out soon by Chrysler and American Motors. Some, ironically, will be powered by VW engines. One selling point for the Rabbits that will be made in Volkswagen's Pennsylvania plant: about 20% will be equipped with lightweight, fuel-stingy diesel engines, the first large-scale introduction of diesels to the American market...
...terms of marketing policy, G.E. has for some time supplied much of the high-technology machinery bought by the South African government, including 80 per cent of the diesel train engines so vital to the maintenance of the white minority's military and security. In 1976, despite opposition from Congress, G.E. tried to sell nuclear reactors to the South African government. In addition, G.E. has continually refused to disclose the details of the company's sales and manufacturing operations in South Africa...