Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rolls-Royce company went bust in 1971, overwhelmed by the cost of producing advanced jet engines for American planes; its aero-engine division was nationalized by the Crown and a new operation, Rolls-Royce Motors, was created to continue making cars, diesel engines and turbine parts. The motor business has done well; it posted nearly $10 million in pre-tax profits last year on sales of $110 million. So Receiver Edward Rupert Nicholson had planned to sell shares in it to the British public and use the proceeds to settle bills run up by the aero-engine operation...
...earlier among women than men." These remarkable statements were included in a Tokyo high-court decision upholding an earlier compulsory retirement age for women than for men. The case in question began four years ago when Miyo Nakamoto was discharged from her job as a draftswoman by the Nissan Motor Company Ltd. when she became 50, the firm's mandatory retirement age for women. Mrs. Nakamoto sued to stay on until 55, the age at which male employees must leave. At the loss of her suit, Mrs. Nakamoto called the decision "preposterous." Two female news commentators rallied...
...Grounds officials on a new scheme to exclude all vehicles from the roadways in the Yard. Stubbins has already done a preliminary study--officially called the Yard Service System Study--that suggests that quiet electric carts be used for all the functions now performed in the Yard by motor vehicles...
...unlikable crew of misfits chases around rural California in quest of a greenback grail: $312,000 in cash embezzled from a talent agency years earlier. James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle and Louise Lasser barrel over the back roads towing an Airstream Land Yacht, pursued by two absurdly sinister motor homes painted deadly black and piloted by unseen, relentless drivers...
...Moss, attorney for the Treadway Motor Inn, also on Mt. Auburn St., opposed granting the zoning changes, terming them "illegal." He said after the hearing "Calling the Holiday Inn property transitional is a sham." He noted that Cambridge is currently negotiating with another developer concerning the commercial development of land on the "residential [west] side" of the Holiday Inn site...