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...course, there is also the desire for prestige. Until now, the Big Three have been trying to fill the size and price specifications with their own foreign-built cars, notably Ford's English-made Cortina, Chrysler's made-in-France Simca, and G.M.'s German-made Opel, the next best-selling import after Volkswagen...
...clergy swear allegiance to the government, and arrested those who refused. But now thousands of priests who were forced to work in factories and on farms have returned to their flocks. A certain amount of private business is tolerated. Jerry Herdglotz, 47, for example, now drives his own Opel Olympia sedan as a private entrepreneur, makes $250 a month v, $150 that he used to earn working for the state cab company...
Indeed, about the only grey area in an otherwise cheery outlook is foreign competition, which continues to cut into Detroit's market. The Big Four have not retaliated with minimodels of their own, but plans are on the drawing boards. Meanwhile, the invaders-led by Volkswagen, Opel and Toyota-are expected to sell 900,000 cars this year, up 119,500 from...
...sell cars and build cars." The son of a Hildesheim banker, Nordhoff served long enough in World War I to be shot in both knees. In 1925, he took an engineering degree from the Polytechnic Academy in Berlin and began his career by designing aircraft engines in Munich. Joining Opel, General Motors' subsidiary, in 1929, Nordhoff worked as a sales director, traveling occasionally to the U.S. to study American production methods and spending his vacations on Opel's assembly line...
...running Opel's new truck factory in Brandenburg, largest in Europe. Though he turned out 3,000 to 4,000 trucks a month for the wartime German army, he refused to join the Nazi Party. Even so, U.S. occupiers after V-E day decided that he had risen too high as an executive under Hitler, and effectively canceled his career-until the British invited him to Wolfsburg...