Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit is preparing to meet the challenge with a new group of cars even smaller than the original compacts. More than half of all imports are accounted for by West Germany's low-cost ($1,699) Volkswagen, whose continuing success suggests that the import phenomenon is attributable less to beauty than to size and price. With many foreign cars, of course, there is also the desire for prestige. Until now, the Big Three have been trying to fill the size and price specifications with their own foreign-built cars, notably Ford's English-made Cortina, Chrysler...
Shipping can be a hard-knuckled business, but never had the Australian Tonnage Committee, a group of 15 shipping companies involved in Europe-Australia trade, heard such a barefisted challenge. Dropping in at the committee's London office recently, N. I. ("Nicky") Zuev, vice president of the Soviet Union's ship-chartering agency Sovfracht, was in a vile mood. He complained that the committee, which is made up of shipping operators from eight countries, had unfairly treated the Russians, then warned: "Now we're going...
...trade routes for years, of course, but never have its excursions been quite so bold. At stake in the London confrontation are shipping revenues of about $192 million a year, which are now shared by the Italian, French, West German, Dutch, Scandinavian and British lines that form the in-group serving trade routes between Europe and Australia. Last year the Russians sent six ships to Australian ports to pick up 146,000 tons of wool destined for the Soviet Union. Bargaining for a bigger piece of the action this time, they have proposed to run 36 round trips a year...
...last week 30% of Campbell's New Jersey tomatoes had spoiled in the field, and many were being plowed under. The company estimated that the ruin could reach 80% within the next two weeks. Campbell's 250 contract farmers in southern New Jersey, a group of whom has sued two unions for damage because of the strike, grow nearly 40% of the area's 21,000-acre crop. In California, where rotting tomatoes could result in a loss of well over $4,000,000 if the strike persists, farmers called on President Johnson to invoke the Taft...
Back home, meanwhile, the parents of the missing children also go off the deep end. Pandemonium breaks out and the film suddenly turns into a satiric moppet's-eye view of adult life. A multilingual U.N.-cooperative group meets to solve the crisis-and babbles into Babel. A Committee to Encourage Optimism is formed, complete with clowns, dwarfs and dancing girls whooping it up convention style. Finally, the children come back for a brief visit and turn away from it all in lofty disdain, leaving their parents to founder in the generation gap forever...