Word: motorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cramer told reporters that while eating dinner at the Framingham Motor Inn last Friday night, he and a few teammates had discussed the captaincy and had "eliminated almost everybody." He explained that this meant "there were a lot of people who could have been awarded the captaincy...
...foreign investors to be less stubborn too. Gorton, who often takes an oar in one of the lifeboat teams that Aussies love, would like to see the same sort of teamwork in the economy. David Fairbairn, Minister for National Development, notes that many large companies, "particularly in oil and motor vehicles, have been established here for many years, making substantial profits from Australia's political stability and sound economic management." But, says Fairbairn, they have not made many moves to take in Australian investors, partners or managers. "This is not partnership," he says...
During the development of the Mus tang, Ford Motor Co. shaped the car's bucket seats to the specifications of those on the British Ford - only to find it necessary to change the design almost immediately. Five years later, with the Mustang's popularity firmly established, company officials can smile about the costly changeover. "We re alized," says one, "that American buttocks are larger than British." To guard against just that kind of mistake, U.S. business is relying increasingly on the fast-growing science of anthropometry, which systematically studies man's ever-changing anatomical measurements and applies...
...amply demonstrated in Weekend, Godard's latest diatribe against the bourgeois world. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (TIME, Sept. 27) saw modern society as a big brothel. Weekend sees it as a slaughterhouse. A couple (Mireille Dare and Jean Yanne) are embarking on a motor trip. On a narrow country road, they run into an interminable traffic jam. They inch past a line of strange highway flotsam, including a cage of circus animals and a sailboat on a trailer manned by a mariner in wet-weather gear. A few stalled cars honk furiously at the interlopers...
...Phillippe cut costs to cope with foreign competition, and also simplified many of the company's procedures. So successful were his programs that he was jumped over five senior vice presidents to the top of the firm that today is the fourth largest in the U.S. (after General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford Motor...