Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty-five miles away, at Ford Motor Co.'s Wayne, Mich., plant, workmen are busily assembling the company's new subcompacts, the Ford Escort and the Mercury Lynx. Developed at a cost of $3 billion, the new cars are the first autos that Ford has built from the ground up since the Model...
...built on the automobile like the U.S.'s. In his novel Lolita, the late Vladimir Nabokov had his hero drive mindlessly around the U.S. because that represented the quintessential American experience. With only 5.3% of the total world population, Americans drive almost 40% of the world's motor vehicles. There is a car for almost every single licensed driver: 120 million, vs. 143 million. Americans use their cars for work and play; they eat in them, sleep in them, pray in them, see movies in them, even make love in them. Some of the country's largest...
...fifth of the country's gross national product. Autos create employment for almost one in five American workers. The industry uses 60% of the country's synthetic rubber, 50% of its malleable iron, 33% of its zinc, 25% of its steel and 17% of its aluminum. Motor vehicles also consume nearly 40% of the 6.7 billion bbl. of oil used in the U.S. every year...
...Ford Motor Co. paid defense lawyers more than $1 million to fight Indiana's charges that, because of design faults, it was guilty of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three teen-agers whose Pinto was rear-ended in 1978. After a dramatic trial, the giant automaker won. Last week it compensated the parents of the three girls. The total amount: $22,500. In exchange, the families promised not to sue Ford in civil court. The $7,500-a-person payoff is a mere fraction of the million-dollar settlement Ford has agreed to in some...
Whether the person is a veteran automobile worker or an inner-city black youth, unemployment takes a heavy psychological toll. Jerroll Kuerzi, 53, the father of eight, was an industrial engineer at the recently closed Ford Motor plant in Mahwah, N.J. He had already felt the sting of economic upset twice in his life: as a six-year-old during the Great Depression, when his parents were forced to sell the family home; and in the 1958 recession, when he lost both his job with International Harvester and his home in Indianapolis. In June, economic downturn tripped Kuerzi a third...