Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moroccan brigade, moving fast across the southern desert near the Mauritanian border somewhere between Bir Anzaran and El Aargub, was an impressive sight. Armored cars and tanks, halftracks and armored personnel carriers, trucks and Jeep-type vehicles, churned across the sands as far as the eye could see. With light reconnaissance aircraft pointing the way, the battalions roared by in long columns. Supply trucks and gasoline tankers were tucked safely into the middle of the convoy, with a Jeep battalion covering flanks and rear. The cloud of dust raised by the vehicles was almost enough to lay a shadow across...
...rested its survival strategy on what Chairman Gerald Meyers calls a "three-legged stool" of small cars, Jeeps and steady Government contracts for postal vehicles and military tactical trucks. Since 1974, AMC's line-up of cars has shrunk from six to three: Concord, Spirit and Pacer. While analysts say that they are not making money, the high-profit Jeep continues to rake it in. There was some sales softness earlier in the year because of its fuel thirst, but the Jeep rebounded strongly in September and October...
...putting a Concord compact body on a four-wheel Jeep-like drive train, the company has produced a new car that gets about 16 m.p.g. and sells for some $7,000. Name: the Eagle. It rides easily, stops quickly on icy roads, and is designed for doctors, firemen, people who drive snowplows and others in rough climes. AMC planned to build 50,000 in this model year, but reception has been so strong that there is talk of aiming toward...
...Army Jeep...
...turn, by 1985 Renault will get a 22.5% interest in a company that, after teetering on the edge of disaster on and off for 25 years, is staging a modest rally, mainly because of the popularity of its reliable Jeep. In the nine months ended June 30, while Chrysler was sinking deeper into debt, AMC made a profit of $73.3 million, compared with $10.7 million in the same period a year earlier...