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...nine years under German ownership, Chrysler remains the most American-focused of Detroit's Big Three automakers. The company - which was sold in August by Germany's Daimler to the private equity firm Cerberus for $7.4 billion - is more dependent upon the U.S. market than either General Motors or Ford. Only 8% of Chrysler cars are sold outside North America. While, in decades past, that may have been a sensible strategy, this concentration is increasingly a liability as U.S. market growth has slowed, and competition from imports is revving up. Indeed, Chrysler's first half domestic sales were down...
...evening in the 1930s, Henry Ford wore a new suit to a gala dinner he was throwing at his Dearborn, Mich., car factory. The suit, reportedly, was soft to the touch. It was also made from soybean fiber...
...automobile baron was nursing an obsession with all the possible uses of a crop that was then being planted throughout post-Depression America. The gala guests that night were served only soy-based food, and Ford regularly tried to incorporate the pulse into cars, using it for everything from upholstery fabric to experimental paneling. What Ford saw in the hardy, adaptable beans was industrial potential, and over 70 years later, his vision has come to pass. Today, soy shows up in about 75% of the food on offer at the supermarket, from chocolate to margarine, and the industry responsible...
There are three Patriot games (starring Harrison Ford) on the Ivy schedule tomorrow and seven more, including Lafayette’s visit to Harvard Stadium and a Yale-Lehigh showdown, still to come...
...He’s playing to the conservative, Republican base,” said Gergen, who worked for the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton administrations. “It will burnish his credentials as a hardcore conservative...