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...fuel, the UMTA sent them back to the drawing board with an offer to pay $3 per bus for each pound they could remove from the vehicle's weight. In 1977 GM devised the RTS ill, a flashy bus with clean lines and an optional 1 wheelchair lift. Grumman, the company that built o the lunar landing module, bought Flxible and produced a low-slung, 26,000-lb., 48-seat bus, com-Splete with a kneeling mechanism for the handicapped and an electric sign that beamed HAVE A GOOD DAY. Grumman's Flxible 870 with its light...
...screen. Titled World on Parade, it appears at first glance to be a 1940s-style newsreel. Passengers listening through their earphones hear a solemn-voiced narrator describe dramatic scenes of F-14 fighters landing on a Navy aircraft carrier. But then comes the soft sell: those are Grumman planes. Other World on Parade segments have included a mini-tour of a Chrysler factory where robots help assemble K-cars and a message for Krugerrands showing how gold was used in the Apollo spacecraft that flew astronauts to the moon. Also featured are nature sequences starring chimpanzees, reindeer, geese and kangaroos...
...William Casey, then Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, at a time when Vesco was under investigation by that agency. Allen claims, not too persuasively, that he was unaware of the probe when he was working for Vesco. Most serious of all was a charge made by an executive of Grumman Corp., who told a Senate investigating committee that Allen once asked him for a $1 million contribution to the Nixon campaign in return for the President's helping the company land an airplane contract in Japan. Allen denied the allegation to the same committee...
...goods. Although some 200,000 Chinese visited the exhibition, many American businessmen complained that they were not the high-ranking bureaucrats they had expected. Sales made at the show were a small $21 million, and contracts for $3.8 million more were under negotiation at the close of the fair. Grumman International, for example, displayed buses, fire engines and light aluminum trucks, but it received no orders. Said Burt Stern, Grumman's senior vice president: "We found little overt interest in our products. We know it takes time, and we hope that some of the information we gave out will...
...seen The Truth. Or so one would believe after watching the network news and reading almost any paper over the past few weeks of jingoistic self-flagellation. As ABC's "America Held Hostage" approaches its milestone Day 100, the nightly special seems more and more like the film clips Grumman Aircraft makes for the Pentagon...