Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EXCEPT FOR ITS ending, there are no weak links in The Big Red One, but three sequences stand out. Fuller's dramatization of the attack at Omaha Beach on D-Day begins as a personal affair. Unlike the 1962 epic The Longest Day, which featured a fleet of landing craft the size of a dozen Spanish Armadas ("Every dot on that screen is one of our boats...we're making history"), The Big Red One focuses of five men, none of whom want to be heroes, all of whom desperately want to live...
...however, the auto industry's problems rest with Detroit's managers, who failed to plan for a new-car market after the 1974 oil embargo. Wealthy GM went ahead with a plan to scale down gradually its fleet of big cars and to introduce small, fuel-efficient models. But its executives publicly declared that Americans would always demand full-size cars. Despite pleas from then Ford President Lee A. Iacocca, Chairman Henry Ford II refused to give up the big profits in building big cars. As a consequence, Ford today has the fewest small economical models. Meanwhile...
...Washington's attempts to make cars cleaner and more fuel thrifty. For at least ten years Detroit opposed the Clean Air Act, which reduced auto pollution. It also struggled long and hard against the 1975 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that required American automakers to have a fleet fuel efficiency of 18 m.p.g. in 1978 and 27.5 m.p.g. in 1985. As a result, after Iranian oil was cut off in December 1978 and American consumers began demanding smaller cars, Detroit had little to offer...
...years in the auto business, he hopes to sell every one of the 600,000 K-cars that the company can produce this model year. So far, the public's response is good. Even before the cars have moved into dealer showrooms, Chrysler has sold 45,000 to fleet buyers like Xerox and AT&T and another 45,000 to dealers and individuals...
...first birds on the table is frenetic. This Glorious Twelfth, the Onslow Arms in the Surrey suburb of West Clandon dispatched a helicopter to the Heriot moor south of Edinburgh, and 18 still warm grouse were rushed to a London-bound plane. At Heathrow Airport, a fleet of three Ferraris sped the precious consignment to a nearby heliport, where a trio of off-duty Red Devil paratroopers and two choppers were standing by. The Devils jumped into the restaurant's car park, where they were met by chefs in running shoes, who sprinted with the birds to preheated ovens...