Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision that will shake up the U.S. auto market well into the 1970s. This week Ford plants in St. Thomas, Ont., and Kansas City, Mo., begin turning out lacocca's "hell of a good buy." It is the much-trumpeted Maverick, first of Detroit's new line of small cars. List price of the Maverick...
...minicar market for just about a decade, took a long time to decide. In 1962, the company was ready to roll with a small car called the Cardinal, but withdrew it within a few months of production because of fears that the market would not then support a new line. By 1966, however, it was clear that U.S. compacts were losing considerable ground to imports. The Falcon, which reached a peak of 493,000 sales in 1961, was down to 163,000 that year-and to even less in 1967. At a meeting of Ford's new-products group...
...housewives still do their wash at home. To brighten, if not lighten, their washday loads, they buy more than $1 billion a year worth of bleaches and bluing agents, starches and softeners, disinfectants and detergents. Now the home laundry market is churning with a new line of stain removers called enzyme pre-soaks. Competition in presoaks has locked two giant soapmakers-Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive-in a classic marketing battle. It has elevated their rival products, P. & G.'s Biz and Colgate's Axion, to the status of household words...
...Yard Line...
...stop now," Asher said, "It is like beging tackled on the one-yard line. We have come so far and have such a short...