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...obtained from county voting rolls-and reported that she had not filed a claim in the past 18 months. From a marriage certificate, Weston discovered that Doderer had been married only once; from birth certificates, that she was a housewife when her children were born, in 1948 and 1951. Motor vehicle records showed that she had used a $2,000 loan from the Hawkeye State Bank to buy her 1976 Plymouth Valiant and also revealed that she is 54, blonde, blue-eyed 5 ft 6 in and 1401bs...
...must take exception to your statement: "Like Lockheed, the British auto giant [British Leyland Motor Corp.] had to seek government assistance to keep it going; in 1975 the British government spent millions to buy 95% of the company's stock and rescue it from bankruptcy...
Cronin's, on Mt. Auburn St. near the Treadway Motor Inn, is our personal favorite. The drinks and food are good, generous, and reasonably priced; the waitresses are friendly and efficient, and the music is always good. The early '50s decor, including wooden booths, makes this a pleasant, relaxed place to down some chillies with friends...
...this summer because refiners had to devote more of their production than usual to heating oil during the icy winter. But now only a few spot shortages of unleaded fuel are possible. On June 3, at the start of the warm-weather driving season, national inventories of motor fuel totaled 257 million bbl., 38 million bbl. more than a year earlier, and driving has not been increasing much. During the first four months of 1977, drivers used only 1.9% more gasoline than they did during early...
...multinational companies have become so commonplace that exposing them is emerging as a growth industry in itself. Last week when the London tabloid Daily Mail published an expose of an elaborate system of alleged bribes and payoffs maintained by Britain's big, government-controlled automaker, British Leyland Motor Corp., the shock waves reached the highest levels of Britain's shaky Labor government...