Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Berry Gordy Jr. was making $90 a week as a chrome trimmer on a Ford Motor Co. assembly line near Detroit. At 37, he is still applying finishing touches, but now he owns the whole assembly line. Instead of autos, he rolls out pop records - and has become a millionaire several times over...
...president of Motown (for motor town) Records, Gordy has thrust his young company high among the nation's independent recording firms. With predicted 1967 sales of $30 million, Motown is notable on several counts. For one, Gordy is a Negro in a business where the management is almost all white. For another, he has firmly an chored his enterprise in Detroit, far from such recording meccas as New York and Los Angeles. Most important, he has developed interrelated subsidiaries whose systematic control of Motown performers, publicity and recordings is unique in the industry...
...figure eight. Doing away with the stop-and-start movements of the piston engine saves valuable power for a continuous circular movement. The RO 80 will feature two half-liter engines, placed side by side, yet even this will only take up half as much space as a conventional motor of equal power and weigh about two-thirds as much...
...maintain sufficient membership to guard citizens-band Channel 9 (a nationwide emergency channel) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In Detroit, the Automobile Manufacturers Association operates the headquarters of HELP, whose several thousand members man a network of two-way radios designed primarily to help stranded motor vehicle drivers...
...months, Ford Motor Co. has been re-examining its operations abroad with an eye toward a bigger share of the world market. Recently it established Ford of Europe, Inc. to provide better overall control of its British and Continental subsidiaries. Last week Ford was market building again outside the U.S., this time looking south to Latin America. The company announced it is buying a majority interest in Willys-Overland do Brasil, Brazil's second largest automaker...