Word: fords
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There is probably not a single major corporation that does not now employ Washington lobbyists. Ford Motor Co., which kept three representatives in the capital in the early 1960s, today maintains a full-time staff of 40 people. Among the airlines alone, 77 have their separate lobbying staffs in Washington. More than 500 corporations, including some quite small firms, operate Washington lobbies, if only for the sake of what they consider prestige. (Only 100 corporations were represented ten years ago.) Of the roughly 6,000 national trade and professional associations in the U.S., 27% are now headquartered for lobbying effect...
Walker combines the oldtime lobbying techniques of banter and booze with an ability to explain complex issues on the back of an envelope. Jerry Ford once wrote him: "You can explain economics so that even somebody's mother-in-law can understand...
...this week, Republican Phil Crane, 47, history PhD., father of seven daughters and a son, Camel smoker, son of Chicago Columnist Dr. George W. Crane ("The Worry Clinic"), will announce that he is running. Jimmy Carter will not quake in his boots. Ronald Reagan will be mildly irritated, Gerald Ford will be amused, and Crane himself will wonder for at least four seconds what in the world he has done...
...strong the autumn selling season will be. Last week Topic A at the favorite watering hole of the auto industry's top leaders was quite different. Just as they have for weeks, auto executives were buzzing with nonstop speculation as to the motives for Chairman Henry Ford II's firing last month of Lee Iacocca as Ford Motor Co. president...
Quite a few Ford executives were in a nervous and edgy mood. Company spokesmen denied speculations that a purge of Iacocca's supporters was imminent. They also denied a report that Henry Ford may dismiss three of the company's outside directors because they had held private talks with Iacocca when he was trying to line up their support in the crucial weeks just before he was sacked...