Word: iacocca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief cash crop of the area outside the twin cities of Bloomington and Normal, Ill. (combined pop. 83,384), is about to change from corn to cars. Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and Mitsubishi President Toyoo Tate announced last week that they had picked a 636-acre site just west of the central Illinois cities as the location for Diamond-Star Motors, a new joint venture. So named because Mitsubishi's corporate symbol consists of three diamonds and Chrysler's is a star, Diamond-Star plans to build 180,000 subcompact cars annually, beginning in 1988. Each company is investing about...
...IACOCCA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Iacocca...
...able last week to produce, on short notice, tickets to the opening night of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera for Poland's Jaruzelski. New York hotels are braced for the onslaught. The venerable Waldorf-Astoria, well trained in the care and feeding of outsize egos (Frank Sinatra and Lee Iacocca maintain permanent residences in the Waldorf Towers), employs a "flagman," whose sole duty is to keep track of the 115 foreign flags that the hotel keeps on hand and to fly the right ones for VIP guests. Since 40 foreign delegations are booked into Waldorf suites...
...IACOCCA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY...
...Iacocca...