Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week went to the Government to complain about foreign tariffs. Before the Commerce Department, the Automobile Manufacturers' Association argued that European duties, purchase taxes and quotas have priced U.S. cars out of the market. Noted the association: with taxes and duties, a U.S. compact such as the Ford Falcon (New York list price: $2,040) costs an English buyer $5,238, an Italian $4,368 and a Frenchman $4,184. Many a businessman feels that unless foreign nations allow U.S. products to compete on equal terms in foreign markets, there will be a rise in protectionist sentiment...
...North Central states. To make up the difference in defenses against manned bombers, he promised to plug gaps in the three-year-old Distant Early Warning net (DEW line), beef up the manned interceptor-the F-104 and F106 - by better radar and longer-range airborne, atom-armed Falcon missiles...
COMPACT-CAR SALES lead is held by Ford Motor Co.'s Falcon, which since Jan. 1 has sold 80,433 models v. 72,113 for American Motors' Rambler...
...Ford's Falcon, bestselling of the Big Three compacts, seems to be feeding off the regular-size Ford market. Ford's sales in January and February totaled 223,000 cars, up 3,000 from 1959's first two months, but 69,000 of those sales were Falcons. Result: sales of the regular Ford fell from 209,000 cars in January and February of 1959 to 143,000 this year. The Falcon now accounts for 33% of the Ford division's business...
...Chevrolet's Corvair, though not making the impact of the Falcon, appears to have found a new market all its own. In January and February last year Chevrolet's sales totaled 230,000 cars; this year it has sold 267,000 cars, but only 35,000 of them were Corvairs. Thus, the regular Chevy is selling at about the same rate as last year, while the Corvair, accounting for 13% of the division's sales, is all extra business...