Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King's death immediately realigned forces on both sides. Ohio's William McCulloch, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, abruptly broke with Ford to come out in support of the bill, followed by Illinois' John Anderson and more than a dozen other Republicans. Knowing that enough G.O.P. votes had probably swung over in favor of open housing, Johnson canceled his announced civil rights address to Congress. Principal reason for the decision: he did not wish to risk antagonizing the Republican converts by seeming to claim partisan proprietorship of the bill...
...challenge by introducing compacts, but prices and sizes for those models have risen sharply, resulting in the same old problem. Volkswagen, with its new "automatic stick shift" that offers the driver a choice of changing gears or not, now ranks No. 3 in sales behind the big Chevy and Ford models...
...Ford is still recovering from the strike last fall that cost it more than 6% of the market, dropping its share to 19.7% despite recent gains. Fairlanes are running twice as well as in 1967, but Mustangs continue to slip each month. Mercury's Montego is popular, while the sporty Cougar has just managed to match last year's sales level...
...biggest shadow in Detroit's future is the growing popularity of foreign models. They now control 10% of U.S. sales, and in Southern California, the auto industry's most lucrative regional market, they have cornered an impressive 25%. Ford's Executive Vice President Lee lacocca says that it is a matter of price. "People say: 'Where can I buy a car for $2,000?' It's that simple...
Preliminary hearings in the case closed shortly after noon in U.S. District Court. Judge Francis J. W. Ford will announce his rulings on the motions of the defense within the next few days...